School: Cloonkeen Kerrill (roll number 15429)
- Location:
- Clonkeenkerrill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Theresa M. Hurley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 360
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- (continued from previous page)the woman of the house makes a pancake and she puts a ring in it and whoever gets the ring will be married the next year.On Saint Patrick's day people send gifts to others and they call these gifts "St Patrick's pot".Chalk Sunday is the first Sunday of Lent. On that day they chalk any old man or woman that are not married.On Easter Sunday the people of the district has an old custom of eating a number of eggs.On Whit Sunday the people of the district are afraid to go very near to fire or water for fear they would be burned or drowned. They say if you got a cut on that day the track would never leave it.The people have a number of superstitions about May Day. They would not give milk or fire to anyone. If anyone came into the house they would have to go out the same door as they came in or they were supposed to bring the luck of the house away. On this day the children make a "May pole". They decorate it with every(continues on next page)
