School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)
- Location:
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 393
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- (continued from previous page)obligation [it] and is observed on the seventeenth of March. People wear shamrocks [an] or harps on their coats on that day. All the halls that had been closed with such a long time are opened on that night and an all night dance is held in each hall.
Shrove is observed but not in a very special manner, people make ''matches'' as they are called during Shrove. On Shrove Tuesday people get married. Shrove Tuesday Night is also known as
'' pancake Night'' because people have
'' pancakes'' for that night. They make them very small and thin. They make them of eggs, currants, raisins and brown sugar and several other things.
Ash Wednesday is not observed in a special manner, ashes is blessed in Churches and people make the sigh of the cross on their foreheads with the ashes and they wear the sign of the cross on for the day.
'' Chalk'' Sunday is not observed in the district.Holy Thursday is not observed in a special manner.
Good Friday is observed as a feast day in the Churches.On Good Friday evening people go to the Churches to do the Stations of the Cross.
The older people say that if people kept silence from twelve to three on this day they(continues on next page)
