School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trathanaí, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 435
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- (continued from previous page)a certain amount collected they used to buy tea, sugar and cakes, and hold a dance at the crossroads.
All who would give them any money would come to the dance.Long ago, the people used to make four crosses of straw on St. Brigid's eve. They used to put them on top of the house, one over each corner. Each cross was this shape. [Drawing]The crosses were supposed to bring luck to the house during the year.
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- Collector
- Mary Anne Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Druminiskin, Co. na Mí
