School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 209
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- (continued from previous page)Whit Sunday & Monday.
The old people say you should not go near the sea or harness a horse on Whit Sunday and that you should not go near a bog on Whit Monday.May Day.
It is an old custom not to give away milk on May Day and to have the cows in before sunset on May eve.
The old people say you should not put down the fire early on May morn because anyone outside that would cut the smoke that would come out of the chimney with a reaping hook will have the milk and butter of the house for the year.St. John's Day.
On St John's Eve the old people say large bonfires used to be made. A boy and girl who'd like to know(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss A Gilhooly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Dromard, Co. Sligo
