School: Moyaugher (roll number 4523)
- Location:
- Moyagher, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Choileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 358
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- Ash Wednesday
Ash- bags_ little bags filled with the ashes were pinned to the coat tails of old bachelors on Ash-Wednesday
- Children went around from house to house gathering their "cloodhog" on Easter Saturday.
- Valentines used to be sent on St Valentine's Day up to about forty years ago.
- Collector
- Mary Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- My mother told me she remembered one funeral at which she heard keening. THe funeral was going to Memker (?) Church, and as she was very young at the time, she could give no particulars but she thought the funeral had come a long distance.
