School: Carraig Thuathail (B.)
- Location:
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: John Bowdren
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- (continued from previous page)I hope in Heaven your soul will rest.
If you fill it of the small,
The wren boys won't like that at all.
Up with the kettle and down with the pot,
Give us our answer and let us be gone."
When this is finished the woman would put a few pence into the box. Then they go to the next house and so on until they finish. Then when they come home they divide the money.
St. Bridgid's Day:- On the eve of St. Bridgid's Night the people put a piece of rag or a bit of straw outside the door to have St. Bridgid kneel on it.
Shrove Tuesday:- Every woman that is of age to get married ans was not married would be taken to the river.
A local custom is the making of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday Night. They use up all the eggs making pancakes as people eat few eggs during Lent.
Easter Sunday:- On Easter Sunday morning at six o' clock the Sun dances.
People eat a lot of eggs on Easter Sunday on account of the long fast for Lent.
St. John's Day:- On St. John's Night it is the custom to have a bonfire. The people stop(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jerry Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs Nora Coleman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Carraig Thuathail, Co. Chorcaí