School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 373
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- (continued from previous page)others would sing Nancy Coughlan would dance and a hooped gallon of porter on her head. Police men out of Mountainstown used to come to it. There used to be a stage along the round. It would open at seven o'clock each night. People used to come from Newtown Kells and other places to it. It would last for a week each year. It would open the first Sunday in August.
- It is a custom to light a fire on the top of a hill on Easter Sunday and boil eggs. The fire is not supposed to be put out. It is to go out itself. On Hallow eve night people take gates and other articles and change them. On Christmas day people kill the wren and bury him the next day in front of the door.
- Collector
- James Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs James Brian
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
