School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan
- Location:
- Cavan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Carmel
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- Most of the people in Cavan still keen the old May Day customs. The children gather primroses, daisies, and buttercups and sprinkle them at the doorway. In the evening they collect all the flowers and have a huge bon-fire usually on a hill or some slope. Other children get a whin bush or two (usually two and place one each side of the door the they throw the may flowers on the whins.
I heard at home that some children get a whitethorn bush and plant it at the door. They say that in the morning they will find a present from the fairies under the bush. It is really their parents who put the gift there. Long ago on May Eve the women(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Aghnaglogh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs T. Smith
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Aghnaglogh, Co. Cavan