School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)Winter time.
- The door should be kept closed on eve of May Day, and young people should not venture out alone for fear of the Good People.
- Food cooked before May Day and left over to May Day should not be used. The fairies have left lumps of clay instead of the real food. [-]
If the face is washed with the dew of the grass before sunrise on May morning the skin will remain white and clear [-]
No coal should be let out of the fire (given away) on May Day. [-] - Collector
- Pat Slein
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinafad, Co. Roscommon
