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School: An Clochar, Ceann Tuirc (roll number 10232)

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Kanturk, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Berchmans
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0354, Page 195

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  1. Festival Customs

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    In this district the people have many strange customs connected with certain feast days.
    On the eve of St. Brigid's Day the people used to put out a piece of linen material and let it out during the night. There was then supposed to be a certain cure attached to it. On St. Patrick's Day people wear a sprig of shamrock. Long ago the people used to wear green ribbons and harps as well as shamrocks.
    On Lady Day, which is the twenty-fifth of March any family who are about to move into
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismeelcunnin, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs O' Keeffe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismeelcunnin, Co. Cork