School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyburke
- XML Page 09_042
- XML “St <span class="exact">John's</span> <span class="exact">Eve</span>”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)every year on the top of a hill. All the children bring a load or two of turf. The fire is lit early in the evening. When the people are going home they bring a coal with them and they throw it into the crop because the people say that it makes the crop grow better. The bone-fire lasts a long time. It is going on until two or three o'clock in the morning. They say prayers at the bone-fire. They get six or seven small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Ludden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Maggie Ludden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo