School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 524
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- (continued from previous page)outside the walls of Kilgefin. There is also a strangers plot in Kilgefin graveyard.
- Emblems And Objects Of Value.
Emblems and objects of value such as crosses and badges are hung up in houses on certain.
On Saint Bridget's Day as cross is made of straw or rushes and placed over the entrance to keep away sickness from the people of the house. When St Bridget was on earth there was a terrible disease going and St Bridget made a cross and placed it over the school doors to keep the disease from the children and so it .
On St Patrick's Day a cross is made of different coloured ribbons and the children(continues on next page) - Collector
- Una Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Margaret E. Cuffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
