School: Machaire
- Location:
- Magherintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ó Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)family is great,
Rise up lads and ladies and give us a treat
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
A penny or twopence to bury the wren."On Shrove Tuesday it is a custom to have a feast of pancakes. On Halloweve it is a custom for young men to tie the doors and gates of a neighbour's house and when this is done, to take some farm implement for a joke and hide it so that the neighbour would be minus his weapon for some time.
On the first of January it is a custom to not throw water out on this day as it was believed that this would take away the luck for the rest of the year.
