School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)and a company of women were preaching in Ireland, they had no house to stay in when night came on. They saw a light in the distance, when they came to the house they went in, and the woman gave Bridgid a drink, and she put poison in it. St Bridgid took a rush off the floor and made the sign of the cross in the drink and then drank it. Then St Bridgid asked her why she put the poison in the drink. She said she wanted the gold cross on her neck.St Bridgid said that the person who would make a cross of rushes, that their house would be blessed by her.IIISt Patricks' Day. On St Patricks Day it is the custom to wear shamrocks in honour of St. Patrick.IV.Easter Sunday. On Easter Sunday it is the custom to eat a great many eggs. There are many processions held in the town in commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916.V.Garland Sunday. On Garland Sunday, the last Sunday in July, the people visit the Holy Well at [?], and drink the water. It is the custom also to go picking billberries on that day(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Denis Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
