School: Muine an Mheadha
- Location:
- Monivea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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- It was a custom on a May morning to go around with the May bush and they used to say a rhyme. This is what they used to say. A long life and a happy wife and a penny towards the May bush.
Long ago when there used to be a wedding and when the Bride groom and Bride would be leaving for the Church the people would throw a old boot after them the way they would have a happy life.
Long ago the people used to get straw and flatten it out and plat it out and every year there would be any one born they would make a mat and put it upon in the ceiling and that is how they would know their ages.
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- Annie Burke
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- Julia Coffey
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- Female
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- Peggie Lindsay
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- Female
