School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)

Location:
Cloone, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bean Uí Sholamháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 203

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    All farmers prepared their turf bank in May day in preparation for the seasons crop of turf. If the bog was a long distance away, they rose at dawn, breakfasted and made preparations for their dinner which would be got ready on the bog. Then they took sleans, barrows, spades and all the necessary equipment on their carts, and set off at an early hour for the first days work on the bog. If they made mud turf, it was said they would not get cold if they walked barefooted through the mud on May day.
    The old people always believed the fairies, or "good people" as they called them, had special power over mankind on May Eve and May day. If a child or young person died on either of these days, it was said "the good people" took them.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edergole, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Peter Carroll
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Edergole, Co. Leitrim