School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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- It was a custom in ancient Ireland to "drown the shamrock". Men used to get drunk on Saint Patrick's day to show off that they "drowned the shamrock."
The youth looked forward to manhood and to "drowning the shamrock".- Collector
- Theresa Daly
- Gender
- Female