School: Leitir Mhór (roll number 15944)
- Location:
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Ní Bhaoghaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 146
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Leitir Mhór
- XML Page 146
- XML “May-Lady Night”
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
- May-Lady Night is very much enjoyed by the children. In the evening they have great fun dressing a Maylady. Each child brings some article of dress, for her adornment.
When she is fully dressed in her white gown and hat, the children march along, singing gay songs, and scattering bright May blossoms before the May Queen which they carry shoulder high. As they pass along, kind people give them money. Some children sell little bunches of May flowers, which they say brings good luck. They also scatter flowers about the doors, and windows of their own homes for luck.
- Collector
- Philomena Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
