School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 178](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0394%2FCBES_0394_178.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 178
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cluain Uamha (C.)
- XML Page 178
- XML “Festival Customs - Saint Brigid's Day”
- XML “Festival Customs - Saint Patrick's Day”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Mary Eliza Driscoll VII
- Long ago it was the custom that all Irish people should wear shamrock on Saint Patrick's Day, because when Saint Patrick was explaining (to a king) about the Three Divine Persons a sprig of shamrock sprang up at his feet.
If an old man met another man, he asked him if he had his "Patricks Pot" yet. This meant had he a "pint" yet that day. If he had not, both would have one then.
Both boys and girls wore harps and rosettes made of green ribbon; men wore shamrock on their hats also.