School: Kelladone (roll number 5123)
- Location:
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Padhraic Maguidhir
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up before the sun rises on May day and if woulds he or she would wash his or her face in the dew they would have a good complexion for the rest of the year. Long ago on May morning the little boys used to go out and pick May flowers and tie them to the cows' horns, "they said" if they did not do that the cows would have no milk for the year.Story told by an old man calledMichael O'Malley
Thallabawn
Louisburgh
(aged 94)- Collector
- Kathleen O' Malley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 94
- Address
- Tallavbaun, Co. Mayo