School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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- One May Eve just before twelve o'clock mid-night some of the old people go into their neighbour's fields and say some weird words and at the same time make a hole in the ground and out in bad stale goose-eggs so that the neighbour's crops would fail.
- On May Eve many people sprinkle Easter water on the four corners of their farm at the same time saying, "In the Name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost."(continues on next page)
