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School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

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Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 309

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    day for getting married before Lent. Long ago it was customary to have pancakes for supper on that night and so it was called pancake night. Easter Sunday people eat as many eggs as they are able and poor children whose parent's keep no hens go out to gather eggs on Holy Saturday. There are many customs connected with May Day. People always churned before sunrise and put some of the dew of the grass on the churn, it will increase your butter It is unlucky to give away milk on May Day and if you put out the ashes you will be throwing out your luck. It was a custom for witches to go out and milk the peoples' cows before sunrise. Then you would have no butter the coming year. Long ago people used to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary J. Mc Guire
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Informant
    Mrs Boyce
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrickedmond, Co. Longford