School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0598, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)of taking neigbour's butter etc. If they did take it they cd. keep it for the year. However other people were said to have the power of bringing it back. These did not divulge their secret power. Some used to go to Biddy Early to get it back.
- Bonfires lit on St. John's Eve. - in honour of saint. Visits to St. John's well in Cratloe to make rounds were common 60 years ago. Some do so yet.
- Féile MhichílGoose or other fowl killed in honour of saint. Blood spilled on jambs of door to keep away the Destroying Angel.
