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School: Hackettstown (2)

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Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 495

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    May Day was kept up to thirty years ago in this locality on the first of May. They got a May bush, and decorated it with white ribbons, they tied flowers on it, put cards on it, and candles lighted on it.
    Boys and girls marched round the town of Hacketstown, and one of the bigger girls walked in front, and some of the other girls held the May bush over her head, like a kind of a canopy. They sang songs, and carried bunches of flowers in their hands.
    They have a lot of superstitions connected with May Day around here. They say that you should not carry a lighted coal out of a house, or a lighted match on that day.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Violet Seabrooke
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    Over 80
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow