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School: Urhan (C.) (roll number 12260)

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Urhin, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Eimile Ní Urdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0276, Page 178

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    It is a custom on May day to bring in a green branch in the morning before sunrise
    There is a holy well near Castletown and people go there paying rounds on May Eve and also on May day morning. About 30 years ago crowds of people used go there but now the custom is dying out.
    The old people would not like to give milk away on May day. They do not make a churn. If there is a churn to be made it is the custom to make it on May Eve or they do not sell butter on May Day.
    They used not like to have a cow calf on May Day. Once upon a time a cow calfed on May Day, the old people did not like it at all they were always talking about it. On the following May day the calf died.
    Siobhan Ní Murachacha

    Fuaireas an sgeul ó mo mathair Maighread Bean Ní Murchadha, Cathair Cuim, Beara.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. May (~639)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Siobhan Ní Murachacha
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Caherkeen, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Maighread Bean Ní Mhurchadha
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Caherkeen, Co. Cork