School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)
- Location:
- Willistown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 153
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- (continued from previous page)The "Patron" day is the 7th June and in the townland of Salterstown - which was formerly a parish - it is observed as a holiday. No work is done on that day. The church yard about a quarter of a mile distant, is visited on the eve of the festival, by people who have relatives buried there. The graves are cleaned and covered with flowers. On the Patron day Mass is celebrated for the repose of the souls of those interred there, and people visit the cemetery throughout the day.
Information supplied by John Callaghan, blacksmith, Mount Doyle, who died on November 1936 aged 84 years.He was born at Mount Doyle where he lived all his life and heard this story from his parents.
- Informant
- John Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Mountdoyle, Co. Louth
