School: Hackettstown (2)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 495
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - May Day was kept up to thirty years ago in this locality on the first of May. They got a May bush, and decorated it with white ribbons, they tied flowers on it, put cards on it, and candles lighted on it.Boys and girls marched round the town of Hacketstown, and one of the bigger girls walked in front, and some of the other girls held the May bush over her head, like a kind of a canopy. They sang songs, and carried bunches of flowers in their hands.They have a lot of superstitions connected with May Day around here. They say that you should not carry a lighted coal out of a house, or a lighted match on that day.(continues on next page)
