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School: Kilmeague, Naas (roll number 10829)

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Kilmeage, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Thomáis
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    Festival Customs
    Shrove Tuesday
    Shrove Tuesday is seven weeks before Easter. There is always a feast in every house. People eat pan-cakes and other nice things on Shrove Tuesday. Ash Wednesday comes after Shrove Tuesday. Boys go and play games out in the fields or by the roadside. The boys put cord along the road to tangel the girls up in it.
    Vera Spooner.
    If a child or a foal is born on Whit Sunday or Monday it should be put in the ground and two sticks put cross ways + over it or it will either be killed itself or kill someone.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Shrovetide (~188)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Vera Spooner
    Gender
    Female