School: Cloonagh Boys' National School
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: P. O Braonáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0168
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- (continued from previous page)rain because if it did there is an old that it would rain for forty days without missing any day.
May day.
There is an old custom on May day and it is said that if you wash your your face in the dew that any disease will never touch you for that year.
On the night before May day the old people would put May flowers on the cow's "udders" to prevent the milk from getting stole.
Palm Sunday
On Palm Sunday everyone gets a piece of Blessed Palm in the church and wears it in honour of Our Lords entry into Jerusalem and the people throwing Palm in front of him.
- Collector
- John Fleming
- Gender
- Male
