School: Synge, Inagh (roll number 14440)
- Location:
- Glennageer, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0612, Page 325
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- (continued from previous page)325 that Chrom was a god, and that Dubh or Dua meant a sacrifice, which in combination made Crom Dubh or Crom Dua that is, Crom's Sacrifice: and this Sunday was set apart for the feast and commemoration of this Crom Dubh, whoever he may have been.The feast, games and sports of this day merged into a sort of patron or festive fair, which continued to be celebrated on Buaile na Greine for a considerable time. The principal amusements were feasting, drinking, and singing, racing, hurling, dancing and other such sports, the patron being sometimes held for several days. The priests and wise old men of the surrounding parishes, growing tired of this practice admonished the people to abandon the custom of going to Mount Callan, and counselled them to give up customary feasts and patron of Buaile na Greine, and subsequently they got up a patron at St. Muchans, in the Union of Ennistymon whither they invited all to come.Hence they set up races, goals, moneen dances and other sports to attract the people hither, and here, while the young(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam O' Looney
- Gender
- Male
