School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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- (continued from previous page)night, because it was he who lit the first fire on the Hill of Slane.
There is a Pattern to Clonmacnoise every year in honour of Saint Ciaran who is the Patron of our Diocese.
On Shrove Tuesday, or "pancake night", pancakes are made for the tea, and a ring put in one of them. The person, who gets the ring, it is said, will be married the first out of that house.
Ash Wednesday people get blessed ashes on their foreheads in the form of a cross.
April 1st., or "All Fools' Day", is usually a day of great fun, for people pin pieces of paper to each other's back; a piece might be on your back without being aware of it, and then everyone would be laughing at you.
A black hen's egg is kept from Good Friday till Easter Sunday, and it is eaten on that morning.
On May Day, a May bush is put up in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you go out on May morning and wash your face in the dew, you will not get sunburnt throughout the year.
On Saint Martin's Day people kill a cock, and sprinkle the doorposts with the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolnahinch, Co. Offaly
