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School: Maigh Ard

Location:
Moyard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Dubhshlain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0006, Page 134

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  1. Feast Days of the Year

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    On Saint Stephen's day boys go from house to house with the wrenn and the gather money for their selves, some times old people put womens skirts and shawls on them and colour their face's black, they get a melodian and play tunes outside peoples house's. One day John Conn and Joe Conneely put womens b clothes on them and they gathered some money.
    On May day people dont give andything to other people. People make crosse's on St Brigid day and put them on the walls of the houses and they wear shamrocks on St. Patricks day.
    On St. John's night people make bone fires.
    I heard this story from my mother who lives in Moyard.
    Sarah J King
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah J. King
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moyard, Co. Galway