School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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- On May day morning some children get a small haw-thorn bush and dress it up like a Christmas tree. Then they take it and carry it around their village singing rhymes such as:-
Here we go gathering nuts of May,
nuts of May,
On a cold and frosty morning.
The old people are so glad with the children that they give them pennies and when the day is over they buy sweets and fruit and a lot of other things with which they have a feast that evening.On May day people used to tie a red ribbon on horse's or cow's tails for fear that the "Good people" would "over look" them.On the first of May people would not lend money or give a drink, for they said you would give their luck away.On May day people used to clean out their wells and white-wash the inside(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tony Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan