School: Currach Púir (Curraghpoor), Dún na Sgíath (roll number 14008)
- Location:
- Currach an Phaoraigh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Liam Ó Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0577, Page 120
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - St John's Eve falls on the 23rd June and there is an old custom associated with it, which is still observed here. On that night a group of youths gather together at a cross roads and they light a bone-fire. They sit around it singing and playing music and some of them dance. They often remain on until early morning. Some people take a lighted furze bush from the bonefire and walk around the potato garden with it. This is supposed to prevent disease in the crop. Other farmers drive their cows through the embers of the bone-fire to keep them from disease.
