Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0021
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“About seventy years ago in this Co. there used be great bonefires lit.”
(continued from previous page)Wexford exactly seventy years ago.
If a person did a heroic
act or was a great footballer
or anything of that kind, the
people of the parish would
always light a bonefire in his
honour. All these customs have
now died out in this county.
It is a long time ago since
a bonfire was lit, almost
fifty years ago. They wouldn't
go to the bother or trouble of getting the poles and bushes
at all . . If anything great
happened nowardys, all the people
would do is go into a big
field of bushes and burn it.
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“The dead coach used to travel from Ballyhogue...”
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