School: Batterstown
- Location:
- Batterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seosaimhín, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)honour of the sun, when he comes to his full strength on June the 24th. On May-Day when the "May bush" is put up the children gather flowers to put on it. It is said that if a person lit a "May-bush" and let it burn before the house on May-Day that house would be saved from lightning for a year and a day. It is also said that on May morning if a person got a snail and put it on a plate and sprinkled the plate with flour and left it there until sunset and then look at the plate the letters they would see on it would tell the name of the person whom they would marry also if the snail was in the shell the person would be rich and if out of the shell the person would be poor.
Bonfires used to be lit on every crossroads in June in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Morgan
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Peter Doyle
- Gender
- Male
