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School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher

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Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
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Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 343

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    On the last day of April people dress a May bush with coloured ribbons and put it in the yard that evening. It is kept up for all the month of May.
    Others used go around skimming wells. They say that if your well is skimmed you will have no butter yield during the month. Some people bring out eggs and put them under the potato drills so as to take the potato yield from the growing crop. Long ago the old people would cut the makings of their brooms in April because they say "if you cut a broom in May you cut your luck away or if you sweep out the kitchen out in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Mac Bride
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockmoylan, Co. Kilkenny