School: Kelladone (roll number 5123)
- Location:
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Padhraic Maguidhir
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kelladone
- XML Page 05_005
- XML “Lá Fhéile Bríde”
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
- The old people tell us that there were customs carried on in this place long ago on St. Brigid's night, such as making the rush crosses. After sunset one of the grown up people in the house, goes out and cuts a bundle of rushes, hides it outside the door until the time for the feast comes. Then he leaves the house again, and walks round the home in the direction of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamonn Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Richard Mannion
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo