School: Drumgownagh
- Location:
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Dominic Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 591
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- (continued from previous page)Day with great superstition. They would not put up a smoke early on May morning neither would they let butter or milk out of the house on this day.
A bon-fire is lighted to commemorate the feast of St. John and St. Peter and St. Paul. Cunleens from the bon fire are thrown by a member of the family of each house in the crops to keep away the frost.
Michaelmas day if fair and clear was looked upon by the old people as a sign of two winters in the year.
The old people always killed a fowl for the feast of St. Martin. They sprinkled the four corners of the house with the blood of the fowl.
- On St Patricks Day the people get a three-leaf shamrock. All the Irish people like to get the shamrock no matter where they are.
The people make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday,
Poor Jack went to plough
His mother made pancakes
She scarcely knew how(continues on next page) - Collector
- Máire Ní Bhrádaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keeldra, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Moran
- Address
- Keeldra, Co. Leitrim
