School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 088
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- (continued from previous page)Many years ago platforms used be put up at every cross-road on that day and dances were held there.It is a custom to dress the may Queen on that day. In our school we always dress a boy and a girl as a King and Queen with wild flowers of every kind and then we dress some of the other children as their attendants and train-bearers, then we put them all in a line, first the King and Queen then their train-bearers and behind them the attendants, then all the school children follow singing Irish songs to suit the day such as -Tugamar fein an samras linn.
Tugamar fein an samras linn.
Tugamar line e, is ce bainfid dinn e.
Tugamar fein an samras linn.Long ago it was a custom to plant a furze outside the door and held up with stones and it is left there all May day.It is a custom to light bone-fires on May eve night to welcome the summer.Clarrie Alfred, Cummeen, Adare,
Co. Limerick. Age 14 yrs
- Collector
- Clarrie Alfred
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cummeen, Co. Limerick
