School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- We make a bone-fire on the 24th June. Every one goes to the bog with an ass and creels for a load of turf. They make a big heap of it at the cross-road. They get a bone for it and they go into the nearest house for a coal to set fire to the turf. All the people of the village gather to the fire. The old people say the rosary around(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie M. Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo