School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall
- Location:
- Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)(b)rought to the chapel. The priest blesses it. It is put in a basket and left outside the Chapel door on Palm Sunday. The people take it and put it in their coats.
- People say it is not right to go near water on Whit Sunday. If people go into water they will get drowned.Sometimes people hang crosses in the outhouses. They are hung there to keep away diseases from the cattle.(continues on next page)
