School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0321
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- On St Martins day, they kill the cocks and shake the blood around the house in every corner and in every old house.
May day they stick maypole in every piece of tillage. Long ago. The people used to put it around the churn and the stand of cream and over every door of the houses and in the duncle.
Every one that used to come in may day they used take a hand at making the churn
On the Twelveth day they light twelve candles in pitch and put up the pitch in the roof.
The 31st of October is puckey night after that you cannot eat no more haws. After Michaelmas day. Black berries are rotten.(continues on next page)
