School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inistíomáin (roll number 16359)
- Location:
- Inis Díomáin, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: An tSiúr Teresita
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Féilí na Bliadhna.
The principal feasts of the year are New Year's Day, Saint John's Night, Saint Stephen's Day, Saint Martin's Day, and Saint Brigid's Day.
On New Year's Day ,people bake a big cake ,and when it is baked ,they hit it against the wall and say "Go mbeirimid bheo an t-am seo aris"
On Saint John's Night a bon-fire is lighted and the people dance and sing around the fire. Before the fire is burned out ,the people take some of the coals home. On St Stephen's day the Wren-boys go from house to house collecting money to bury the Wren.
On St Martin's day some people kill a cock and sprinkle the blood in the rooms of the houses. On St Brigid's Day people visit St .Brigid's well.
- Collector
- Eily Clancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inis Díomáin, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Mrs Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inis Díomáin, Co. an Chláir
