School: Cill na Móna (C.) (roll number 13626)
- Location:
- Cill na Móna, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Síle Céitinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 361
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- Féilí na BliadhnaThese are the feasts of the year that are usually kept in this parish:- St Bridget's day - It is a practice with some of the people to make a small wooden cross, and nail it to the rafter on the roof of the house, on the eve of St Bridget's day as many as a hundred of these crosses are to be seen in some of the very old thatched houses.
St Blaise's Day - Hundreds of people from this district attend at the Franciscian church in Ennis, in order to have their throats blessed on St Blaise's Day the 3rd February.
St Patrick's - on St Patrick's day the Shamrock, which only grows in Ireland,is worn by all the people.
Shrove- Shrove time is the time of the year when people get married, especially some time ago, all the marriages took place during that period.
Ash Wednesday - Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the ashes is blessed on that day and given to the people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Angela Keane
- Gender
- Female
