School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 412
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- St. Martin's day is held on the 11th of November. It is held as a feast day in honour of St. Martin The night before St. Martin's day people kill a goose or a chicken or some other kind of fowl, and they draw the blood and dip a piece of flax in it.
They keep the piece of flax because it is said to be a cure for a pain in one's side.
St. Martin was a saint who was ground in a mill for his faith.
In olden times the mills used not work on that day The women in olden times used not work
No one would turn a wheel not even of a car.
- Collector
- Eliza Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolkeragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
