School: Teamhrán (B.) (roll number 14833)
- Location:
- Tavraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S. Mac Conmara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0113, Page 144
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- St John's Day is on the 24th June and on the eve of that night there are lots on bonefires.
At 9 o'clock in the evening the fire starts. Sometimes the fire is lit at a cross-roads or on hill tops.
At 12 o'clock they quench the fire and each person brings a coal home and throws it into the tillage field and this brings a blessing on the crops and it also stops the blight from the potatoes. The old people say that Bone-fire is the wrong name and 'Bon fire' the right name which means 'Good fire'.
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- Thomas Keegan
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