School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- Location:
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: John Bowdren
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- (continued from previous page)there until it is nearly quenched dancing and singing. When they start to go home they take a piece of burnt stick with them and throw it into the garden for luck.
May Day:- People used bring in pieces of May trees on May Day and decorate themselves with it.
New Year's Eve:- At 12 o'clock on that night the people of Carrigtwohill parade the village three or four times with cans and pots and tea chests singing the New Year's Song.
This is a few lines of it:-
"Should Auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind.
We're here because we're there because,
We're here because we're here."
Little Christmas Day:- On Little Christmas night the water changes into wine. A man named John Murthy lived in Rossmore, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork heard that the water changes into wine on Little Christmas Night. So he went to a well near his own house at twelve o'clock. He stayed there for a half an hour and then he decided to go home. When he got up he found his leg stiff and it never got alright.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jerry Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Nora Coleman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Carrigtohill, Co. Cork