School: Longford, Kinnitty
- Location:
- Longford, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 036
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- (continued from previous page)On Shrove Tuesday night people make pancakes and put a ring in it and the person who ever gets the ring it is said that person will get married first.
On Saint Peter and Paul's day there are bone fires made at cross roads. On New Years Eve they sing the New Year in and the old year out. On the fifteenth of August, it is called the Lady day of harvest.
Saint Martin was ground in a mill and on account of that no threshing work on that day. If you kill a fowl on that day you are not allowed to gather the blood, but throw it around the ground in honour of Saint Martin.
On Saint Swithin's Day, if it rains that day it will rain for forty days and forty nights without stopping.
- Informant
- Mrs James Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballywilliam, Co. Offaly
