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School: Lios Uí Chearbhaill (C.), Malla (roll number 12016)

Location:
Liscarroll, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 199

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    plate. After a time they would take off the basin and then they would imagine they saw a name written on the flour that they were to marry that person.
    On May Day the people had a custom of bringing in the Summer with them. One person would stay up all night and when the break of day would come he would go out and bring in branches of holly, hazel and two kinds of mountain ash. Then they would go around the house singing "Thugamair Féin an Samhrath linn".
    On Palm Sunday the people take a palm to Mass to get it blessed. In the month of May the people in my district go to the Blessed Well in the townland of Rockspring
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Liscarroll, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Denis O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    46
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Liscarroll, Co. Cork