1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Faltia

School: Faltia

Location:
Faltia, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Thomas Quinn
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 168

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 168

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Faltia
  2. XML Page 168
  3. XML “Festival Customs”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Festival Customs (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    sign of the cross on their forehead. Every May eve all children gather flowers, and put up a May pole for the first of May.
    On St. Martin's day everyone kills a fowl of some sort. Also on Hallow eve all children dive for apples, and money. They hang an apple from the ceiling, and see who would catch it. On St. Peter and Paul's day all young children light a fire with turf, and straw in honour of those Saints.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Greene
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Faltia, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Richard Greene
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Address
    Faltia, Co. Roscommon