School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- In some houses in this district the people keep a cross of St Brigid. It is made with sixty-four rushes in the form of a cross. It should be blessed & put hanging over the door. A new cross should be made every year on St Brigid's Day & the old one should be burned.
On Palm Sunday, people put the palm in the cow-house & stables or wherever there are calves or pigs.
- Collector
- Ella Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- All Catholics wear Palm on Palm Sunday & put some in all the outhouses as it is said it brings luck on the stock
At Xmas, houses are decorated with holly & ivy. - Holly is put up at Xmas & taken down after twelve days
On Palm Sunday, everyone gets palm in the Church after mass. It is put up around the house & left there until (it withers) next Palm Sunday.
On May Day, it was the custom to put a May bush in the manure & put coloured ribbons on it.
