School: Baile Nua, Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 5093)
- Location:
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)it meant bad luck. If primrose were scattered on the threshold on May Eve, the fairies would have no power to harm the house hold as no fairy could pass the flowers.
Another May-time custom is the dance round the May-bush. A Hawthorn bush is erected on a mound and all the people join hands and dance round it.
Written by Alice O'Keeffe, Ballynattin, Ballynoe, Tallow, Co. Waterford.
Information from Mr. Joseph O'Keeffe, Ballynattin, Ballynoe, Tallow, Co. Waterford.- Collector
- Alice O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynattin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Joseph O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynattin, Co. Cork