School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 388
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- There are many customers carried on here on the first of may. Long ago there were farmers called whet stone farmers. They had two cows. On May morning when they were turning out the cows the woman always stood in the door and she gave the cows stroke on the back with a hazel stick hoping she would have good luck with the cows. She never sold milk to anyone on May day.
They also lit bone fires and put up a May pole and danced and sang round the fires on May eve to welcome May.
It is said that Motto Stone rolls down to the river every May morning to get a drink and comes back before sunrise.
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- Veronica Moore
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- Female
