School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- St Martins Day. On this day the furs were lit on the hills.
Also the people used to kill a fowl & drop the blood on the step of the door.
On St Brigids Day people used to make a cross of wheat & put it over the barn door until the next year then they'd put new wheat up.- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny