School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0300
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- (continued from previous page)people wash the churn dash and clappers in a running stream. It is said that if egg shells were put in a tillage field on May-morning the crops would fail, because they were taken by the person who put the shells there. On St Johns night every family light a bonfire, and with the last coal of it, the man of the house blesses the crops. On St Martins day every family kill a cock and the blood is spilled on the doorstep. If it rains on St Swedens day it will rain for forty days. On Halloween people who are anxious to find out who they would marry fill their mouths with water go to three houses and listen at the keyhole and(continues on next page)
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- Kitty Flanagan
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- Mrs Shiel
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