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School: Dromakeenan

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Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
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C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 142

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    On Christmas night everyone leaves a clean clock of water and a cup beside it for the Holy Family passes through the house and they might want a cup of water.
    On St Martins night every one kills a chicken and sprinkles the blood round the flour and corners of the house because the Angel of Death passes over the house and if you hadn't blood sprinkled round the four corners of the house she would kill someone in the house.
    The field that the first crop of potatoes was sown in Ireland is now a fort. One day while the boys were digging the potatoes out of the old forth there came six women and they picked for ten minutes and when the men went over after they had finished
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Maher
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Farmer