School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 363
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- (continued from previous page)things. Long ago children used to come round gathering "cludogs" on Easter Saturday. It is not done round here now. On April the first, we try to make fools of each other. You tell a person that some-one wants them, or something like that, and when they go you say "April fool kiss the leg of the black stool. If any one tries to mak a fool of of you any other day you say "April fools day is long gone and you are the fool that carries it on"
On the day before the first of May children go through the fields gathering cowslips and primroses for the May bush. The May Bush is made by putting a bush standing in a promient place and decorating it up with flowers. Primroses and cowslips are generally what is put on it. It is left there till after May Day then it is taken done. Long ago on Hallow Een night young girls would go out and pull a Yarrow and bring it in and put it under their pillow and say "Morrow, good morrow,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 37
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
