School: Tobar Ruadh
- Location:
- Toberroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0175
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- [?] May-day-Long ago the people carried out strange customs on May-day. They would get a hawthorn bush and stick it in the mud outside the door and cover it with a bouquet of different flowers. This was supposed to be in honour of the Blessed Virgin. The people believed that on May-day the butter could be taken away out of the churn before sunrise and that the third generation of a black-smith could then tell who took it. The people would not give away milk on that day also.
St. John's Day - On St John's Day long ago everyone would light a fire on the roadside and dance around it but this was a pagan custom. The young lads would go around that night and milk the neighbours' cows and then they would buy loaves and boil the milk and itself together and eat it.
St Martins Day - Long ago the people would kill fowl on St Martin and put three crosses on the door of the fowl. This was a very old custom and it was carried out till the late years.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Comber
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonbar, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Walshe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 37
- Address
- Cloonbar, Co. Galway
