School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)milk on Good Friday.
On Easter Sunday all people eat a number of eggs. The people wear badges on Easter Sunday.
People dont like to fall or get cut on Whit-Sunday.
All people have lighted candles in their rooms on New-Years Night in honour of the New-Year.
On Garland Sunday people go to Blessed Wells. People go to Croak Patrick on that day All people have Stations at a lot of Blessed Wells on that day. Buses come from places to Blessed-Wells on Garland Sunday.
On st-Martins day every person has a goose or turkey for dinner. People spill the blood of those geese and turkeys in honour of St Martin. All the people make a great feast of that day. No people work mills on St Martins Day.
On Holy Thursday Mass is celebrated in every Catholic Church throughout the world.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Killeena, Co. Mayo
