School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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- Saint John's eve, 23rd of June. Torches made of reed attached to a stick are lighted and carried through the land. On Saint Martin's day on the 11th of November. The custom was to spill blood in honour of Saint Martin. Once a woman was anxious to honour the feast. She was inclined to be thrifty, so she killed a delicate hen. The result was that most of her hen's died.Long ago people get drunk on Saint Patrick's Day. It was called the drowning of the Shamrock. People who did not get married during shrove would be chalked on Chalk Sunday.
- Collector
- Charles O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonbeirne, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connor
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doonbeirne, Co. Limerick