School: Ballyhaise (2)
- Location:
- Béal Átha hÉis, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 221
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- The different festivals of the year have all their own special customs
On St Stephen's Day some boys catch a wren and make a box and put it in it, and go around from house to house singing songs and dancing and asking money.
On Shrove Tuesday there are pan-cakes made. Here is a little poem about it
Pan-cakes Tuesday,
Is a very happy day,
If you dont give us a holiday,
We will all run away.
Long ago people made pan-cakes, and when they would be turning them they would throw them up in the air and catch them on the pan again.
On Easter Sunday a lot of children gather together and light a fire of sticks, and they all bring their own eggs, and boil them on the fire.
On May Day there is a May bush made, and the children catch hands in a ring around it. It is said that the first up on May Day(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mena Hutchinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. an Chabháin
