School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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- Local Customs.
On St. Stephen's Day boys and girls dress up in strange attire. They bring a fiddle and a money box and a branch of a white thorn with them. They go around from house to house playing music and dancing.
If the people of the house would give a little money they would give a piece of the branch for luck.
They sometimes go to far off towns and they make a a great deal of money. When the day is over they come home and share the money between themselves.
On St. John's eve boys and girls light bone-fires. Some of them brings a fiddle with them and they play and dance. When they are going home they bring a coal with them and put it in their land for luck. Sometimes tea is made and is given to the guests.
Mary Moran,
Ruskey,
Co. Roscommon.
30 May '38
- Collector
- Mary Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
