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School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)

Location:
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 172

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  1. Brídeog (continued)

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    gather toghether and dress up in funny clothes and go around to houses and dance and and play music and sing songs. It was a great custom six years ago but it is dying out now. It is only in the country that they do it now.
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  2. Signs

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    If you are going anywhere and you meet a magpie you will have sorrow, if you meet two, joy, three for a wedding and four to die.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    3. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Fintan Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    John Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    51
    Address
    Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny