School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 143
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My granny Mrs Jane Cox of New Ruskey told me some of the customs on May Eve.
She said they used to erect a May pole in front of the house and they used to stick the May pole in the dung-pit and tie bunches of May flowers on the branches of the pole. Sometimes the May pole stuck into the thatch.
The children pick bunches of May flowers and scatter them on the doorsteps of the houses. She said no one used to lend or borrow on that day because she said, it wasn't lucky . In the olden times the country people would not let a man kindle his pipe and if he took a coal, they would put a sod of turf in place of the coal he took away.Lily Robinson, Ruskey,
Co. Roscommon.
8 June '38
- Collector
- Lily Robinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky New, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Jane Cox
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky New, Co. Roscommon
