School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 184
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- (continued from previous page)Garland Sunday - is called "The last rose of Summer", because it is the last Sunday of Summer.St Martin's Day. No wheel should be turned because St. Martin was crushed to death in a mill. It is said that the Ballasodare Mills were burned on that day because they were working. Long ago it was the custom that no carts should be put on the road on St. Martin's Day.Twelve Days of Christmas. It is said that if these twelve days are good that the whole year would be goodNew Years' Eve. If you would spend on that day, you would spend the whole year round.
- Collector
- John Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugatober, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Henry Currid
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lugatober, Co. Sligo
