School: Tulchán (roll number 10097)
- Location:
- Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Guidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0190, Page 176
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- St Patricks day falls on the 17th of March. On that day the people all go to St Patricks well. The Band plays Hymns and the people walk to the well. On St Bridgets night the people make crosses and put them up in the roof in honour of St Bridget. On Ash Wednesday no one ever goes to work until after twelve. There is a well in Ballyshannon and it is called the abbey well. On the 15th of August the people go to it and they do a station at it. There are five heaps of stones. They take stones off the heap and go round the well and throw a stone on each heap and say five our fathers and say five (hail) Hail Marys and five glories. On Shrove Tuesday the people get married before Lent. The people make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. The people celebrate St John on the twenty third of June. The people gather strikes and wins and light a fire(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Duncarbry, Co. Leitrim
