School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)from house to house as “Pookas”. They are dressed up in old clothes and visors and go round dancing and singing. They get nuts and apples and other things.It is a customs on Shrove Tuesday to make a great quantity of pancakes and eat them for supper. The children call it “Pancake Night”.I got this information from my (Age 51 yrs) father William Tiernan.
Signed: Eamon Tiernan
Miltown,
Newbridge,
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- Collector
- Alice Slattery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Garret Slattery
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 22
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Kildare