School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 327
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- (continued from previous page)Little Xmas or Twelfth Night:-A dried cow dung placed on chair in middle of floor. Twelve rush lights (dipped) are lighted and stuck in cow-dung. These are in honour of the Twelve Apostles.
New Years Day:-The plough is "stretched" Taken out and horses yoked to it - it is dragged a foot or two.
St Patrick's Day:- Patrick's "Crosses" worn.
Shrove:- Pancake night. Bracks and Hot Cross Buns with rings (?)"Puss Sunday:- 1st Sunday in Lent so called because the ladies wear frowns because they havn't been proposed to before Ash Wednesday
Good FridayEggs laid this day are marked with a cross (soot) and eaten on Easter Sunday.
Easter Sunday:-Sun is supposed to "Dance". People rise early to see this.
May Day:-Neither lend or borrow. If you give sup of milk throw a piece of salt in it.
Peter and Paul 29th June:- Bonfire night. A burnt stick was taken off fire and thrown into each field for luck.
Hallow e'en:- Fairies roam the world
