School: Baile na hInse (roll number 7440)
- Location:
- Ballynahinch, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Muirghis
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- 20-11-37
I. On May Eve people go to another person's house, and ask something that they would have themselves, in order to injure them. (other's)II. There is also a custom, when people are giving away potatoes, they get sixpence or a shilling for luck because they would be afraid their luck in potatoes would go.III. On St Martin's night people kill a pair of chickens or hen, and spill the blood around the house in honour of St Martin- Informant
- Patrick Hourigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrane, Co. Tipperary