School: Lios Uí Bhigín (B.) (roll number 8791)
- Location:
- Lissyviggeen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Raghallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 030
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lios Uí Bhigín (B.)
- XML Page 030
- XML “St John's Eve”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- St John's Eve
About sixty or seventy years St John's Eve was observed by young and old but nowadays this custom has died except that a furze bush is lighted in a remote place. Long ago a few days before Bonfire Night all the young men and boys were busily engaged gathering sticks,turf and other kinds of fuel. When they had enough gathered they made them all up into one big heap so as to have a blaze fire. When the sun went down all the neighbours gathered around. The fire was lighted and the flames could be seen for miles. Then all at once there was wild applause(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donie O Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissyviggeen, Co. Kerry
