School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)
- Location:
- Inis, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)with it. One is "May Fire". Children get sticks, coal or turf on May Eve and May Day light a fire and go from door to door with some in a can asking for a penny for the "May Fire".Some people say you should not go into a field on May Eve as the fairies would take you. They also believe that you should bring a branch of green (such as a branch of a white thorn) into the house for luck on May Eve and May Day. On the other hand some people say that it is unlucky to bring anything green into the house during May. Some people in Ennis believe in the first and others in the second.Long ago people did not like others to take water from their well on May morning as they were afraid they might take away the butter of their cows. Nobody would come into anothers house for a coal on that day for the same reason. People used to put out quick beam on the crops to protect them from the fairies. The more usual practice now is to sprinkle them with Holy Water.
On ST JOHN'S EVE and ST JOHN'S DAY bonfires used be lighted in every town land. They are still lighted in some places especially at St John's Well in Newhall a few miles outside Ennis.
The 24th OF JUNE is the FAIR OF SPANCILHILL a very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Connellan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inis, Co. an Chláir
