School: Carhurley
- Location:
- Caherhurly, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Uí Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 252
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“St John's Eve is still the greatest festival outdoor in rural Irish life.”
St.John's Eve is still the greatest festival outdoor in rural Irish life. Bonfires have always been a sign of rejoicing, it was natural to expect that the birth of John the Baptist was an occasion of great rejoicing among God's chosen people. The fires are lit on some eminence and it is a pleasing sight on a calm summer evening to watch them blazing from hill to hill. Cattle were driven with hazel switches through the smoke of the bonfires as a preventative against disease. The switches were afterwards consigned to the flames.
