School: Cillín

Location:
Killeen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Hubáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 551

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 551

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cillín
  2. XML Page 551
  3. XML “Special Days of the Year and Customs and Superstitions Connected with them”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    People don't give anything away on New Year's Day.
    If a person breaks anything on New Year's Day it is said that he will be breaking something for the whole year.
    Some people do not put ashes out on New Year's Day because it is said that is is not lucky.
    May Day
    People do not put out ashes on May Day, because it is not lucky. People do not milk their cows on May Day.
    Novembers Day
    Anyone does not pick black berries after November's Day.
    May Day
    May morning a woman went to a
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Charles Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    James Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Martin Healy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moyny, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Tighe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Peter Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Pat Tighe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cabintown, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Peter Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Sam Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowneden, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Thomas Munnelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo