School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)should not get married within a year.
Two brothers or two sisters should not marry within a year.
You should never lend anything on May morning or you should not go near water for nine days before or after Whit-Sunday. Both those days are looked upon as unlucky days and people born on Whit Sunday are supposed to be vicious. - On St. Stephen's day little boys go round with a wren in a box which they have decorated with coloured papers. At each house they say
"Dreoilín, dreoilín rí na n-éan
Is mór é a mhuirín, is beag é féin(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo