School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)
- Location:
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Peter Hegarty
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- (continued from previous page)FOLKLORE;
A rag you will be always in, rags a stick that a man will beat his wife with it or she will beat him. The children have snapapple and other games.
MICHAELMASS DAY;
The old people believe that it is not right to eat blackberries after Michaelmass Day because the fairies do their dirt on them that night.
ST,BRIDGID'S DAY;
St.Bridgid's Day is another festival. When the people are going to bed they put out a scarf or a cloth and St. Bridgid is supposed to bless them and that they will cure ailments such as earaches or toothaches.- Collector
- George Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois