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School: Dunmore, Kilkenny (roll number 4331)

Location:
Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
M. Ó Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0863, Page 293

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  1. Festival Customs

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    There is an old tradition about may morning and the maiden.
    If a young girl looks into a well of cleer water on may morning before the dew is gone off the grass she will see her future husband in the well. This is a common believ among our people especially the young.
    Young girls love to get up early on a may morning and go to the cleerest well they can find to see if this story is true or not.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Stapleton
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny

  2. Festival Customs (continued)

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    The local people believe in Piseóga about May Morn The witch skims the well on May Morn ere Sunrise and so takes the butter that belongs to the farmer.
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