School: Colthurst, Ráth Cúil
- Location:
- Rathcool, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)and St. Brigid blesses it and it will cure any ailment.
All the people wear Shamrock on St. Patrick's Day and there are many songs about it.
On Chalk Sunday the people put a cross of chalk on the backs of the old bachelors.
On May Day the people wash their faces in the dew to make themselves good looking.
They also wash their hands in the dew and they could undo any knot. People visit a well called The City to pay rounds for cattle on the 1st of May. The City is at the foot of The Paps. On May Eve people work "piseógs".
People make bonfires on St. John's Eve. On St. John's Day people pay rounds at St. John's Well which is on the top of Mushera Mountain. They(continues on next page)
