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School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
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Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0545, Page 105

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    There are festival custom's in my district every year, Such as St Stephan's Day, following the wren. Gathering money and buying sweets for it. Shrove Tuesday they make pan cake's, And on May Day. stealing milk out of another's tank & lighting bon fire's. And on St Martin's Day, a chicken is killed and blood is sppilled at the back of the door. On November night people out an apple into a pan of water and then they try to bring it out of the water with, there mouth
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Bourke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cullahill, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Patrick Bourke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Cullahill, Co. Tipperary