School: Meelick (roll number 14592)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)called "Pancake Tuesday". Good Friday is considered lucky for sowing crops, and on Easter Sunday everybody eats eggs. On May Day many strange customs are observed. It is considered unlucky to give away milk or to allow fire to be brought out of the house on that day. St. John's Eve, the 22nd June, is another Irish festival. There is usually a bonfire in honour of St. John and everybody brings a coal from the bonfire and throws it into their field so that they may have good crops. November Eve is associated with very old customs. Children duck for apples on this night. Another custom is to go into a plot of cabbage, shut your eyes, and pull a head of cabbage. This is taken home and the first person who comes in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Ganly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Martin Ganly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmaul, Co. Roscommon