School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)baked and thrown at the door to keep out the hunger. On Shrove Tuesday the bachelors and old maids were taken out to get a dip in the river. All the children were kept inside from the fairies on May Day and also the people would get up early and wash their feet in the dew.
Chalk Sunday was the Sunday after Ash Wednesday. The boys used to chalk bachelors and old maids because they did not get married.- Collector
- Timothy Winters
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Hannan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork