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 0323
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- May Eve they stick a piece of mountain ash in their crops the way the fairies would not take the luck of the crops. The children enjoy November night the best because they do be diving for apples and pennies. The growing up people gather to one house and play some tricks and dance for some of the night. Then the woman of the house makes tea and has a pan cake baked with a ring and a button and a sixpenny bit in it. Then the fun is to see who would get them. On St. Martins day people kill cocks and sprinkle their blood in the four corners of the house. New years Eve the old people say would see a man with as many heads as days in the year. On New years day the people throw out no ashes.
- Collector
- Johanna Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toorleitra, Co. Galway
