Scoil: Gurranes, Bandon

Ar an leathanach seo

1. May Morning (ar lean)

   

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   Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   giving a “turn to the handle” or a “twist to the churn”. It would be a cause of great suspicion & bad feeling for the person who would not touch the churn. That is a custom still & I found it in every part of Ireland. A drink of buttermilk was always offered by the woman of the house to those who helped to make the churn & one time in a house in Shraheen Co Mayo where I refused the drink ( I did not know about the custom then) the woman never saluted me afterwards, although I had given a few turns to the churn.

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2. (gan teideal)

   “Although this is the parish of Templemartin the people keep up none of the old customs of St Martin's eve.”

   

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   Although this is the parish of Templemartin the people keep up none of the old customs of St Martin's eve. I remember in Kilronan in the Arran Islands every house had a fowl killed & cooked that night & most particular they were to put a little bran or coarse brown flour in the "soup or broth". There is never a mention of it here. They never heard of a brídóge on 2nd Feb. but I often saw the children going around with a bundle dressed as a baby in Arran & Mayo. They went from house to house & got some little offering in each house in honour of "Mary of the Gael." The children made no distinction & went into R.C. & Protestant houses alike.
   St Patrick's crosses are unknown here. I made

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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