School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- Collector
- Mary Madden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonagoose, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Madden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Labourer's wife
- Address
- Clonagoose, Co. Tipperary
- There is a tradition that it is unlucky to work mills on St. Martin's Day because St. Martin was ground up in a mill.
- Most people in this district used to kill a cock on St Martin's Day in former times. The cock was killed at the back door and was brought around the house, the blood being sprinkled on the four corners.
- If blood of fowl were not spilled inside door on St. Martin's day people believed that all fowl would die.