School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Dún Uabhair, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Mrs E.J. Roberts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 357
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- (continued from previous page)before Ash Wednesday an ash bag was tied on him.
All fasts are over on Easter Saturday so people eat their fill that day.
Bonfires are lit and people eat their cludoc (a number of eggs) beside them on Easter Sunday.
The children dress a May bush with flowers, and eggshells and ribbons and then dance round it on May Day.
On St John's Day, or Bonfire night, big bonfires are lit on hills and on the sides of the roads and dances and amusement are held round them, then a sprig of fire is thrown into crops for luck.
On Hallow'Een people take the gates off the house entrance and field and throw them over ditches.
The(y) also tie cabbages over doors and the first person that goes out under the cabbage will be married before the year is out.
- Collector
- Betty Mc Whirter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlayne, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Miss Mc Whirter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlayne, Co. na Mí
