School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)

Location:
Tullagher, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Mrs Winnie Murphy
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  1. Food on Easter Sunday - Eggs
    2 at least for breakfast eggs for dinner and eggs for tea,
    Present of eggs given to children & called a "Pruthóg"
    On Christmas Eve - Currant Cake Turkey or Goose and Plum Pudding,
    On Shrove Tuesday called Shraft - Pancakes
    On Good Friday - no food taken until after mid-day: black fast then observed.
    On November Eve - Colcannon- ring put in
    - whoever found Ring would be first to marry,
    On St Martin's Eve - fowl or domestic animal killed, and the blood spilled in honour of St Marten - saying while doing so
    "in bnêir do Dia agus Do mhuire, agus mártún."
    Young people often boasted of the number of fowl killed in their homes for St Martin's night: they seemed to long for that feast for one saying was "St Martin will take (anything killed in his honour before his feast but he wont take after it"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.