School: Kilmurry

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 255

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 255

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  1. On the evening before May day a bush is cut and it is decorated with flowers, rags and sometimes egg shells. The flowers are generally white and blue in colour and are mostly wild. The bush is called a May bush. The May Bush is in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Some take it down after May day and some leave it up for the month.
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  2. On Halloween I play snap apple. I tie a piece of cord out of the ceiling and put the apple at the bottom of the cord. Then I try to catch the apple in my mouth. But each person can only get three chances.
    I also play ducking. I get water and put in a deep basin and then we put nuts and money in it, and then we try to take them of the water. Who ever take up the money can keep it.
    I get two grains of wheat and put them on the griddle, and name a boy and a girl and see will jump to each other. If they jump
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kate Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Derrygrogan Big, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Joseph Gorman
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Derrygrogan Big, Co. Offaly