School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's

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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   They put the hair in brushes for cleaning chimneys. The women folks beg alsm from the people such as flour, tea, sugar, bacon, milk and eggs. Joyce is the king of the tinkers.

   

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2. May Day

   

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   The children are al delighted when May day is approaching. A day or two previous the children go out looking for a nice bush and the wild flowers that grow in the fields, mostly the cow slips. They also collect the egg shells from Easter Sunday and place them on the May bush. They tie the flowers on the bush with thread and put it in the garden

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   Topics

   1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
         1. Bealtaine (~639)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kevin Buckley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cúil Dorcha, Co. Uíbh Fhailí

   Informant

   Michael Buckley

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   51

   Address

   Cúil Dorcha, Co. Uíbh Fhailí