School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)married before the year is out.
- The Sunday after Shrove Tuesday is called Chalk Sunday. Any person who was expected to be married during Shrove and failed to do so was chalked unknown to himself as he passed into Mass, causing a laugh to the congregation. This custom was practised in Mullinahone to twenty years ago.
- Collector
- Eileen O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Choimseanach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mary Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Occupation
- Miller
- Address
- An Choimseanach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- In former years wells were skimmed about three or four o'clock on May morning. Eggs were put in people's crops in order to take their produce.
- Collector
- Nellie O' Connell
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
