School: Gleann Dubh (roll number 16032)
- Location:
- Carnagh West, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)On Easter Sunday morning it is said the sun dances. It is customory to eat a number of eggs that day.
On May Eve the children get a maypole and decorate it with cowslips primroses and daisies. Then the pole is placed at the gate and left there during the 1st of May. It is supposed to be unlucky to give away milk, throw out ashes or work in clay May day.
On the 23rd of June is bonfire night. A great fire of sticks, turf and sometimes tar is lighted and the fire often lasts till the following day. Each family brings home a burning sod or stick which is thrown(continues on next page)
