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School: Tattenclave

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Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 301

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    their own well first. They would give nothing away on that day because they would give all their luck away.
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  2. Festivals

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    On midsummer night the people light fires in the fields. The way they light them is: they get sticks and hay and put a match to the hay. Then they stay there to it goes out and then they go home.
    Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. The people make pancakes that night. On May Day they put rags on the ditches and they say if you done that you would not get a cold to the next May Day.
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