School: Castletown
- Location:
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 372
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- (continued from previous page)go round collecting flowers for the May bush.
On Ash Wednesday pieces of paper are hung on everyones backs which are called the ash-bags
- About fifty years ago there used to be a pattern at Manus's Cross. There were eleven or twelve stalls. They sold tumbler of gooseberries, cakes, and sweets. For months before it the children were gathering cockle and selling them to an old woman named Katty Bradley that lived to the left at our gate. They would get two pence for each sheaf. Manus's was then a big Public house and all the old women and men would dance and sing in it. They would dance reels and Irish steps. Judy Traynor, Nancy Coughlan, Jane Markey and several(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Mary Markey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knock, Co. na Mí
