The day before Palm Sunday someone brings palm to the chapel and the priest blesses it before mass on Palm Sunday. After mass the mass servers give some palm to every person in the chapel. The feast of St. John is held on the twenty fourth of June. On the eve of St. John's feast the people make a bone fire in honour of St. John. The young school boys go around to every house gathering turf and sticks for the fire. They also get oil from the people to light the fire. A bone fire is made in every village. The people of the village gather around the bone fire, When the people are going they bring a coal from the fire with them. On St. John's nights the people shake holy water on the fields so that they will have good crops. St. Peter and St. Paul's feast is held on the twenty ninth of June. They were put to death in Rome on that day. The next feast day of the year is held on the fifteenth of August. It is kept in honour of our Lady taken up to heaven. Many people from this place go to Out Lady's well which is in the Athenry on that day. The feast of St. Michael is help on the twenty ninth of September. It is called Michaelmas Day. They people kill a goose or else a cock for that day in honour of St. Michael. Some people kill a sheep for that feast.

On St. Brigid's Day little crosses are made of timber and hung from the kitchen ceiling. Candles are also blessed in chapels for the use of the homes on that day."On Candlemas Day,
Throw on candle away"On St John's Eve bonfires are lighted at cross-roads, on the top of a hill, and outside houses in honour of St. John. Those who light the fires gather round them and cheer and

Whit Sunday & Monday.
The old people say you should not go near the sea or harness a horse on Whit Sunday and that you should not go near a bog on Whit Monday.May Day.
It is an old custom not to give away milk on May Day and to have the cows in before sunset on May eve.
The old people say you should not put down the fire early on May morn because anyone outside that would cut the smoke that would come out of the chimney with a reaping hook will have the milk and butter of the house for the year.St. John's Day.
On St John's Eve the old people say large bonfires used to be made. A boy and girl who'd like to know

May Eve and May DayOn May Eve the ghosts and fairies are supposed to be out. A young boy or girl gets a saucer of flour and puts a black snail into it. They then cover the saucer with a cabbage leaf and in the morning the snail is supposed to have the initials of the one they are going to marry traced on the flour. People also go out and wash their faces in the dew on that morning. Most people throw away what is left after May Day as it is said the fairies have the right food taken away and a sod of turf left in its place.
EasterOn Easter Sunday all the young boys gather and have a feast of eggs. They gather them for about a week before hand. Long ago when I was a Gasúr we used to steal eggs wherever we could get them and hide them. Then we had a great feast when the day arrived.
St. John's NightOn St John's Night there are bone-fires held in most villages. At those bone-fires dances are held and all the young

St. John's Eve
On no account bathe at night or early morning. Fires lighted on St. John's Eve. People leap through flames and carry home branches taken from fire. Ashes scattered on farms.Whit Sunday.
No bathing or sleeping during the day. St. Brigids
People dressed a doll and went from house to house carrying "Miss Biddy" and asking for some gift for her.New Year.
Presents were given in honour of a false God to claim her protection. On the coming of Saint Patrick, this custom was given up.

were put in one basket to be sent to the field while the leehauns were away to be boiled for the pigs, the hens, or when potatoes were scarce for the people themselves. Faubawns or Culs is the name which is still given to big potatoes without any eyes.The potatoes are taken to the field in a guguring bag. Long ago the same guguring bag lasted for years. When the sticking was done the moulding was started. Foideens were burned and the ashes was put on the ridges as guano From the time of the sticking to the digging the potatoes were said to be hatching. If a ridge was left unset it was a sign that someone n the house would be dead before the year had elapsed. The bone which was thrown into the bonfire on St. John's Eve used to be thrown into the field of stalks on St. John's Day to bring good luck. A field usually produced three crops- two of potatoes and one of oats, rye, flax, or

sticking to the digging the potatoes were said to be hatching. If a ridge was left unset it was a sign that some one in the house would be dead before a year had elapsed. The bone which was thrown into the bonfire on St. John's Eve used to be thrown into the field of stalks on St. John's Day to bring good luck.
A field usually produced three crops - two of potatoes and one of oats, rye, flax or wheat. When the second crop of potatoes was being put in the farmers turned in three sods and then bucked in the hintin. This mode of breaking a field was called "spud an". Spraying was not done till late years. The it was

Such women are locally supposed to go out on that morning with a can into which they gather the dirt left by the cloven hoof in recent cow tracks, together with other things. After this they are supposed to have all the butter of these cows until the spell is broken.
Most people in this district would not dream of borrowing or lending anything on May Day; or paying out money on that Day.
Nobody would dream of bathing or boating during Whit Week, as it is thought to be dangerous to meddle much with water during that period. Also animals born at this time are supposed to be wicked and dangerous. Even people born during whitsuntide are believed to be crack shots, and a blow from such a person is said to be very much more dangerous than a corresponding one from a person born at another time of the year.
Such people as said to be liable to hurt one even when they have no intention of doing so.
St. John's Eve, that is the evening of 23rd June is the "Bon fire Night." There are certain places, cross roads, etc, in each district where large bonfires are lighted each year. People dance and sing around these bonfires from before sunset on St. John's Eve until almost daybreak the following morning. Old people sit around on the fences and tell stories. When leaving each one takes a coal from the fire, brings it on a stick and throws it into one of his fields. He does this to ensure that the

Many superstitions are observed by young maidens who are seeking husbands. If their happens to be a wedding celebration they usually get a piece of the wedding cake. This they place beneath their pillow for three successive nights during which time they are supposed to dream of their future husbands.
If they go out after midnight on St. John's eve pick a certain herb and speak to nobody, place it beneath their pillow they will also dream of their future husbands, and they are to see them if they are good looking. Long ago a very ugly looking maiden was seeking a husband. She gathered herbs on St. John's, placed them

St John's Eve
In this district people light bon-fires on the side of the road on St. John's Eve.
Sticks and turf are gathered in to a heap and a bone is put in the centre. At dusk the men and girls of the village gather together and amuse themselves, dancing, singing and story-telling up to about twelve o'clock.
A few years ago, refreshment would be distributed on the crowd, such as warm milk, bread and butter. Nowadays this custom is did away with.
On going home each one takes with him a coal from the bon-fire and throws it into the garden for luck.The Assumption Day
Is the real time for visiting holy places and holy wells.

A Bonfire is held at this well every St John's Eve. When a person takes water from the well he is supposed to throw water three times on the stone before filling water for his own use. This stone is supposed to be the head of the statue. It resembles a holy water font being hollowed in the top and on the front of the "font" is a perfectly carved face raised out on the stone. This is supposed to be a carving of St.Brigid who is supposed to have visited the well about the time she was in Cama bridge or Brideswell which is about 5 or 6 miles away from Tobar Liagán and in a neighbouring parish. The carving on the stone resembles a carving of a face raised out on one of the stones in the wall of the ruins of a church in the Rahara graveyard.
Over the well is a mound from which the "Stations" were started. The "Stations finished up at áit na Croise. The two local authorities on this matter Thomas and John Groarke, Carrowkeel differ as to the situation of áit na Croise. Each claim it is in his own land. There were fish in this well once according to tradition and also drinking cups at the well.

important feast. The people of this parish go to "Réidh Fhineán" paying rounds. The farmers of this place go to Castletown buying cabbage plants.
St. John's day was on the twenty fourth of June. On St. John's Eve the farmers lit bonfires in the fields in which their crops were growing. Then at night-fall they lit another big bonfire and drove their cattle through it. This was said to bless the crops and the cattle, and the custom is carried out still.
St. Bartholomew's Day was a feast which occurred in August. Nobody used Sharp pointed instruments on

May Day
Houses in Ballydehob parish of Schull, Co. Cork, are decorated with green branches. The mail-car is also decorated with green branches.
This day is also called Nettlesome day by boys and girls. It is said if you wash your head with the dew on May morning you would never get a headache.Christmas Night.
Lights are lighted in every house in the country on Christmas night. Long candles are put in every window, and the youngest of the house is supposed to light the candles. Some people let them lighting all night and others quench them when they are going to bed. Before they go to bed they all say a few prayers at every one of the windows. Lights are lighted in some of the houses on Little Christmas night and New Year's night, but it is not a general custom.St. John's Eve.
Bushes are lit on St. John's eve., and they are mostly lit near a potato-crop so that the smoke of the bushes would go over the potato-crop.

In Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, the remains of Saint John's tomb is still to be seen. T
Father John Power was a very holy man. He cured people whenever they came to him to be cured. Even at the present day, though St. John is dead, it is said that people are still cured. Numbers of people go there to make rounds on St. John's eve. These rounds are most useful to the people who make them. They are really like acts of penance. I am not sure whether he had a school there or not. I have never seen this tomb but I have often heard of it, and the old people know a lot more about than I do. I cannot tell any more about it.

is said only to appear to those whose prayers are to be answered.At the head of the well is a stone, gradually sinking into the ground on which is cut the cross of St Peter.
Rounds are paid here on St John's Eve and the three following days and also on the feast of SS Peter and Paul. The old custom of trying pieces of material to the trees nearby has been dropped but many medals, hairpins,, and other small articles are to be seen strewn behind the well.
Carraig an Aiferinn, Athaduin situaded half-a-mile north-west of St John's Well, takes us back to the penal days, when the Catholic clergy and laity were declared outlaws, and when the latter having heard the whisper of the secret arrival of some hunted

inside a fence, "all the butter into my churn".
The priest stopped, and said, "all the butter into my churn". He continued on his journey, and as he did a hare ran the road before him. When he arrived at home a naked woman was sitting in the corner. He put her out immediately, the girl he had working told him, "that he had twice the butter that day". He went back and gave back the butter to its rightful owner. Many eggs are put in gardens and in hay in the month of May. On St. John's eve 23rd June fires are lighted and cows are driven through the flames to protect them from the (sicken) sickness.
People ran around the tillage fields with a stick of light to protect it from diseases.
On Easter Sunday morning people get up early to watch the sun dancing. The Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday before Ascension
Thursday are called Rogation Days. Masses are offered to God asking to bless the fruits of the earth, on those days. Holy water is blessed, and is shaken in the garden to prevent them from failing. Long ago, people ran round the tillage with a stick of light, to prevent them from failing, on St. John's eve.

This song is sung at every house in turn.
On St. Patrick's Day it is a custom to wear shamrock. On St. Brigid's Eve people hang a cloth on the door latch. My mother told me that the people long ago used to put straw outside the door to have for the saint to kneel on.
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. On Ash Wednesday the ashes is blessed by the priest and put on the foreheads of the people. As he places it on the forehead he says in Latin "Rember man thou art but dust and into dust thou shalt return."
Chalk Sunday is the first Sunday of Shrove. After Mass on this day some people chalk other people with chalk.
The Feast of the Assumption is on the 15th of August. It is on this day Our Lady was assumed into heaven. This day is a holiday of obligation.
The 25th of June is St. John's Day. On the Eve of St. John's day bonfires are lighted and you will see the young people gathering "brasna" in order to have a fine blaze and in some

any old maids or bacholors they bring them outside the door and ask them why they did not get married in their young days. Then they take them about half a mile from the house and next morning the people say that they were taken to Sceilg.
On St. John's Night people visit Holy Wells and light bonfires in honour of St. John.
On Hallows Eve night people have great feasting. They have apples, sweets, nuts, and barm-bracks.

(See Ordnance Survey Map, Second Edition 1903, Cork, Sheet 42 for location of both wells. One well, the one at Analunthe, is marked as St John the Baptist's Well, and the other is on the road between Knuttary and Bottlehill, and spelled as Toberolan.)A pattern is held at Tobar Aluinn on St John's Eve, and the waters are credited with healing power. Sick people pay rounds there and when they are to be cured a trout appears in the water with his belly turned up. It is said that a girl with a withered hand got cured after paying rounds at this well some years ago.

Many years ago in the parish of Glenville and in a place called Doone a very remarkable thing happened to a blessed well. The holy well was called St. John's Well.
People used to come in thousands on St. John's Eve to visit it and to pray there. It was the custom for people paying rounds at well to leave alms. It seems that one day a thief came to the well and having washed his clothes in water of the well went away and took with him the alms left by the people. Next morning some people living near saw that the well was dry. When they investigated further they found that the holy well had sprung up in a graveyard nearby. More people than ever came afterwards to pay rounds at well and many are known to be cured there and as a thanksgiving many of them brought statues to the well. The above well is situated in the middle of a graveyard called Doone, which is a mile distant from Glenville.