School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)where everyone can see it. Then they build up the sods of turf like a churn and pack the sticks into the heart of it. They put lamp oil on it then and put a match to it and soon the whole thing is ablaze.Then some of the boys play a mouth-organ or a fiddes and more of them sing so that it is more of a dance than anything else. The singing and dancing keeps on until about twelve or one o'clock when everyone starts for home.When they are going home everyone brings a piece of a lit stick and throws it out in the tillage field so that all the crops in that field will be a success.
Tomás Mac Siómóin
Baile Ard
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Siómóin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hilltown, Co. Westmeath
