1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Baldoyle Convent

School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)

Location:
Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Sr Augustine
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 176

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 176

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: Baldoyle Convent
  2. XML Page 176
  3. XML “Festival Customs”

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. Festival Customs

    Share Share Post
    Festival Customs
    3rd March '38
    In this district every festival has a certain custom. For instance on Saint Patrick's Day, the children who have learned Irish dancing, and who have special green costumes, wear them.
    It is said that long ago in this district, the people took tea without milk on Ash Wednesday, and some old people call it "Black Wednesday." They did not eat home-made bread or drink milk, The use of butter, sugar, and milk were strictly forbidden. Even today the old people do not take milk or sugar in their tea on Ash Wednesday.
    On May day the children go round from house to house with a bush decorated with bells and ribbons. One of them is the "May Queen", and she dresses in a long white frock, with
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Harford
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Pupil
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Fox
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilbarrack, Co. Dublin