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School: Kilgobnet

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Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
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Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 331

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    of the Summer tree on May Day as a token of Summer. They brought Palm to the chapel on Palm Sunday to be blessed and it was brought home and put up in the roof. The people always wove linen themselves and sold it and they always kept a few yards for themselves so that they would always have enough. When people paid rounds to holy wells they usually brought home (he) some of the water. The people of this district always bring holy water from the church at Easter. Long ago the people used to bring home (flour) white stones which they found on the tillage which they thought would bring good fortune There were heaps of stones erected to the memory of some people who were killed there. When people were passing a place where a person was killed they usually threw a stone and said
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    History Edit
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr James Doyle
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcoolaght East, Co. Kerry