School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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- (continued from previous page)to be. Then one of the children places the coals and bone on the ground and around these they heap the turf. They say prayers around the fire. They pick seven stones and they start saying some prayer's. When they start they throw a stone away, and when they come around to where they started they throw another stone away, and so on until the last stone is thrown away. When they are going home they take a coal out of the fire, and they throw it in their crops so that no blight(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Áine Ní Oistín
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo