School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)
- Location:
- Tullagher, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mrs Winnie Murphy
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- Food on Easter Sunday - Eggs
2 at least for breakfast eggs for dinner and eggs for tea,
Present of eggs given to children & called a "Pruthóg"On Christmas Eve - Currant Cake Turkey or Goose and Plum Pudding,On Shrove Tuesday called Shraft - PancakesOn Good Friday - no food taken until after mid-day: black fast then observed.On November Eve - Colcannon- ring put in
- whoever found Ring would be first to marry,On St Martin's Eve - fowl or domestic animal killed, and the blood spilled in honour of St Marten - saying while doing so
"in bnêir do Dia agus Do mhuire, agus mártún."
Young people often boasted of the number of fowl killed in their homes for St Martin's night: they seemed to long for that feast for one saying was "St Martin will take (anything killed in his honour before his feast but he wont take after it" - Young people often boasted of the number of fowl killed in their homes for St. Marten's night: they seemed to long for that feast for one saying was: "St Marten will take (anything killed in his honour before his feast but he wont take after it"(continues on next page)