School: Tombrack (roll number 15940)
- Location:
- Tombrack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máighréad, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- 342May Customs1. Young girls go out early on May Morning and bathe their faces in the dew. This is said to keep them handsome for a year and a day.
2. Never give away milk on May Day. If you do you will be in want before the year is out.
3. Use of the Quicken Branch before mentioned.
4. If a man comes into the house on May Day, to light his pipe from the fire, all the luck of the house will go with him for the year following.
5. Ten pieces of a plant called Yarrow are plucked. One piece is thrown away and the remaining nine are kept. A certain verse is said while plucking the yarrow.
If the pieces are put under the pillow on May night you will dream of your future wife or husband.
6. We have a May-bush dressed for the first Sunday in May and we dance around it at night.
7. No one fears May rain. "May rain never harmed man or beast," the old people say.Peig Ni Coileain,
Tombreac.
- Collector
- Peig Ní Coileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tombrack, Co. Wexford
