School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 316
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- (continued from previous page)to kill a fowl in honour of Saint Martin and sprinkle the blood to keep diseases away for the year.
13. It was the custom in olden times on Hollow E'en to peg cabbage at the door or to put red-pepper under the door.
- 14. On Saint Brigid's Day the man of the house goes out and gathers a bundle of rushes and brings them in and lays them on the table and then the family.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Winnie Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornameelta, Co. Roscommon
