School: Clochar na Trócaire, Gráig na Manach
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 429
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- (continued from previous page)Customsthat day many years ago.There is a story told of a man who worked a flour - mill, now the property of Mr. Odlum. It is sutuated at St. Mullins. This man had a cat (which) that had been catching mice the mill for years and she was never caught in the mill. The mill was worked on St. Martin's Day and the cat was killed by the belt.St. John's Night: which falls on the 24th June. A large bonfire is lit on a mountain. Then others are lit with sparks from the first. After some time the whole mountain is on fire. Then the famers from the district carry lighting sticks from the bon-fire and take them around their potato crop. They pray to St. John while doing so to save them from blight.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Bolger
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Bolger
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyogan, Co. Kilkenny
