School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 341
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- It is not lucky to make butter on the first day of May. The people cut a branch from a "sgeach" and they dress it with flowers and primroses and strings and they stick it in a ditch in the yard.
More people used put eggs in a hole in his neighbours field and cover them with a sod in order to bring bad luck to the neighbours crop. All those were only pussogs but they are not done now. The people used light a fire in a gap on the first day of May and when the cows are going out they used put them through the gap so that no ill-luck would befall them.
It is said that no one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Gaule
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keatingstown, Co. Kilkenny
