School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0086
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- People milk a cow at mid-night on May Eve to bring the luck of the butter to themselves.
On May Eve people put a bone of a rabbit in their crop for luck. - People never give away milk on May Day.People do not give flour or salt to anyone on May Day.People put a branch of white-thorn bush in their crops so that the luck of them would not be brought.Most people leave their doors unlocked on Christmas Eve night for the Blessed Virgin to come into the house.
- Collector
- Mona Donahoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Donohue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Galway