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School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)

Location:
Oughterard, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 226

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    butter.
    Some people also tie a red rag to the horse's tail and if it is a white horse they would leave her in the barn all day.
    The people also say that if the girls wash their faces with the dew of the grass they would not get sun burned for the Summer months, on the first morning of May.
    They also say that if a man washes his face with water and soap on the first day of May a long whisker will grow on his face.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. May (~639)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Joyce
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Oughterard, Co. Galway