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School: Kildavin, Ferns

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Kildavin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Tadhg de Brí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0911, Page 254

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  1. St John's Day

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    St. John's Day is on the 24th June. In olden days and up to the present day in some places people light a bonfire in his honour. When the fire would have died down the people would take two fistfulls of ashes each and spread some in each of their fields and pray to St. John to bless their crops.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Feast of St John (~208)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Aidan Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr Kehoe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Drumderry, Co. Wexford

  2. St John's Day

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    On St. John's Night the people used to hang a piece of paper on the door and write a prayer on it in honour of St. John, and leave it until the next night.
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