School: Ballyleague (roll number 5973)
- Location:
- Ballyleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Patrick O' Dowd
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- (continued from previous page)member of the family makes a cross, On that day year they were down and new ones put in their places. Some people leave them from year to year until there are ten or twelve crosses in it
On May Day it is the custom to gather primroses and shake them around the doors Afterwards they are tied on a pole and placed in the dunghill or thatch.- Collector
- Margaret Barlow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloontuskert, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Banaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Erenagh, Co. Roscommon