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School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)

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Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
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Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 332

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  1. May Eve Customs (continued)

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  2. May Eve

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    The old people used to have may pisheroges long ago. In the month of May the people bring in the May bush. In the last night of April the people cut the bush and leave it outside the door until the first of May and then they brings it in to the house in the first morning of May. The old people used to bring the water from where the three rivers used to meet The old people used to put boiled potatoes in an other man's garden so that he would not have any potatoes
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