School: Curnanool N.S. (roll number 14497)

Location:
Cornanool, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0092G, Page 02_047

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0092G, Page 02_047

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Curnanool N.S.
  2. XML Page 02_047
  3. XML “Béaloideas or Folklore on Pisreoga or Pishrogues”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    unnecessary work on that day.
    On May-day there are a lot of Pishrogues carried out by the old people. The old people would not give away milk on May day because they say your cows wont have muck milk for the coming year and there won't be much cream on their milk for that year. Another custom on May-Day, the old people say is if you wash your face in the dew on May Day before sunrise you will not have any pimples or boils or any sort of rashes on your face or skin for the coming year. The old people would not send out a coal of the fire on May day and if they sent out a coal on any other day during the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    16
    Address
    Derrycoosh, Co. Mayo