School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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On May day the people driving horses decorate the horses heads with small branches of the May tree. On the first of May very early in the morning girls big and small went out and washed their faces with the dew off the grass to rid their faces of freckles. After washing their faces they allowed them to dry in the sun. There was an old saying so as to be beautiful "You must wash your face in water that never rained nor ran and dry it with a towel which was never woven or spun.
On St John's Eve it is customary to light bonfires in the different districts. A crowd gathers then and each one jumps over the bonfire three times for luck. The farmers always scatter the remains of the fire in the tilled fields.
- Collector
- Margaret Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Harper's Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr P. Fitzgerald
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Harper's Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs P. Fitzgerald
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Harper's Island, Co. Cork
