School: Brúgh Ríogh (B.) (roll number 8572)
- Location:
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Haragáin
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- 1 One Shrove Tuesday night pancakes are made and meat is boiled plentifully. The piece of meat that is left over is fixed to the thatch with a piece of sally rod, and eaten on Easter Sunday morning.
2 On New Year's Morning the old people came to their next - door - neighbours door and left a loaf of bread outside it.
3 Children were branded with the ashes from a burnt sally on St. Patricks Day.
4 When a cow calved the "beetings" were given to the neighbours, who usually sent back a "lawar" of flour instead.
5 No one eats blackberries after November night because the Pooka has them destroyed and reserved for the "Good People".
6 Never allow a person who came in while you were churning to go out again without taking a hand at the churning.
7 You should never begin an enterprise on a Monday.
8 A bride should have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
9 You should always bless yourself when you see a new moon.
10 On St John's night great bonfires especially(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
