School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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- Up to fifty years ago, on St. Patrick's Day a cross about six inches long and six inches wide was made of paper or cloth and pinned or stitched to the arm of children from four to twelve years. The child's mother or sisters made it.
Palm branches were kept in the dwelling house till Palm Sunday of the following year. When Christmas was over the laurel and holly branches used were burned. Holy water was always kept in the house. The father or mother would sprinkle this when returning at night or when going on any important journey. It was always sprinkled on a churn before commencing to make the butter. Crops and meadows and pasture land were sprinkled with holy water on Ascension Thursday.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eugene Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry