School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- On Good Friday people put crosses on eggs with a pencil. The eggs are eaten on Easter Sunday.
- On the evening before May day a bush is cut and it is decorated with flowers, rags and sometimes egg shells. The flowers are generally white and blue in colour and are mostly wild. The bush is called a May bush. The May Bush is in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Some take it down after May day and some leave it up for the month.
- On the feast of St's Peter and Paul there are bonfires are lighted around the district.
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- Collector
- Kate Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Doire Uí Ghruagáin Mór, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Joseph Gorman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Doire Uí Ghruagáin Mór, Co. Uíbh Fhailí