School: Killadooley, Ballybrophy (roll number 12692)
- Location:
- Killadooley, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Edward J. Guerin
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- (continued from previous page)Michealmas day people kill a goose and call it a Michealmas goose.
People shake Holy water on the crops May Eve to invoke God to save the crops from the hands of bad people.
People put a bit of meat up in the house Good Friday. Tis eaten by the family. An egg a black hen lays on Good Friday is eaten by the family. Everyone gets a bit.
Boys often take a half door from a house and hide it on Hollow Eve night. - (continued from previous page)A bit of the first set of candles lighted over a corpse is spread on blue paper and put to a baby's chest to cure smothering.
A bit of bread is held to a donkey's mouth till he breaths on it three times. It is then given to a child to cure the chin cough.