School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 204
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Walterstown
- XML Page 204
- XML (no title)
- XML “Prayers”
- XML “St Patrick's Cross”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“When the priest was collecting pennies at mass one day, he said to a man - "What is matrimony? "Hell upon earth for some me Lord", the man answered.”
When the priest was collecting pennies at mass one day, he said to a man - "What is Matrimony? "Hell upon earth for some Me Lord", the man answered. This happened in Walterstown Chapel.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- M. B. Kelly
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr James Powderly
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Garlagh Cross, Co. Meath
- The children used to get a round piece of paper and put green ribbon on a cross-shape on it. The spaces between would be covered with bunches of ribbon. Girls wore these crosses in front and boys wore them on the shoulder. Some boys used to paint their crosses instead of putting ribbons on them.
