School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 196
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- A remarkable festival in this side of the country is St. Stephen's Day when the south of the country go around gathering money 'to bury the wren'.
On St. Brigid's night also masked youths go around from house to house gathering money for "The Biddy" as they call it. May Day is also a great festival. There are great piseogs about this and people often fight about it. One of the piseogs is that if a person come early to another person's well that he would have his farm returns for the year. Or if a person came with a spancel and started swinging it in your field he would have all your years return.
On Ash Wednesday people go to the chapel to get blessed ashes rubbed to their foreheads. On Halloween every one has a barm brack in which various articles are hidden. The person who would get the ring would be the first to get married.
- Collector
- Tim Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reineen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Reineen, Co. Kerry
