Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Bonfires

   

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   Great bonfires used to be held on the crossroads long ago. A lot of faggots would be stolen on some farmer in the neighbourhood and brought to the crossroads and then there would be two or three tar-barrels as well. Then the pipers and fiddlers would come along and sit down in the ditches and play music and the boys and girls would gather round the big fire and dance.
   There was one down in Kilmore a long time ago and it was gettin late in the night and the fire was goin out. There was a woman in the crowd went into a nearby graveyard and brought out an armful of the crosses and threw them on

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   History Edit

   Date

   1 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Nioclás Ó Néill