School: Mullagh (C )
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Elizabeth Murchan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 208
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- (continued from previous page)sweet things and towards evening they have a feast under the "May bush" where they finish up the day dancing around it and still singing the rhymes their mothers taught them.
- (I)Long ago the people used to call the first day of May, a "Gentle Day" because that was one of the days the fairies made mischief.If the people said anything that might vex the fairies that day they would put some misfortune on them. So they used to call the first day of May a "Gentle Day" for that reason. This was to please the "Good People".
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(II)It was an old custom in the Month of May that the people would not(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joan Martin
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- Female
