School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- (continued from previous page)the houses all dressed up in old clothes the way anybody wouldn't know them.
On the seventheenth of March we keep it as a holiday of Obligation in Ireland in honour of St. Patrick for it was he who brought the Ture Faith to this country. He got a Shamrock from under his feet and he explained to the people that there were three branches in one stem just as there are three persons in one God.
On Shrove Sunday the people make pancakes and put a ring in them so that the person that would get the ring would be married first. Ash Wednesday(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvine, Co. Mayo