School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Windfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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- St. Martin's Day is celebrated about here on the 8th of Nov. On that day a fowl is killed and its blood spilled on the four corners of the house.
On St. Martin's Day all corn mills are closed because St. Martin was ground in a corn mill.
- On 23rd June there is a bone fire lighted each year. It is said why the fire is lighted is because on 22 June the Irish defeated the Danes and on the following night there was a fire lighted for joy.
- Collector
- Mary Tyrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Gunnode, Co. Galway
- St. John's Day falls on the 24th June and on the evening before a fire is lighted and a bone put into it. The young boys of a village get a bag of turf from each family and make a fire. At night a person from each house brings home a cole.
