School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Clement
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 491
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- (continued from previous page)say that if you give away things on May Day that you will be giving them away all the year. Some of the people never sell milk on that day as they think that the people to whom they sell it would steal the butter.
If the people did sell milk they would put a grain of salt in it, in order that the person to whom they sold it could not steal the butter.
The night before, the children gather cow-slips and they throw them at the door and some people make a may-bush. If you washed your hands in the dew on that morning you could open any knot that would come before you that year. St. John's Eve.
St John's Eve always falls on the twenty-first of June. A couple of days before that day the boys go around collecting turf and sticks. Then they get more turf in the bog.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Toome, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Joe Walsh
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toome, Co. Longford
