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School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)

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Na Coillíní, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 118

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    will be married and if in the water he will cross the water. Another custom is to put a ring and a piece of timber in a cake and whoever gets the ring will get married in the comming year and whosoever gets the piece of wood will never get married. An apple is also put in a tub of water and somebody dives in the tub to get the apple.
    On Whit Sunday the people say that it is not right to go near the salt water, and if a person goes to the river he will take sick and die before Whit Sunday of the following year.
    The feast of the Assumption is a great feast day and people go to a holy well called Lady well and do stations round it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary A. Harrison
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ceathrú Choille, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Mr Harrison
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ceathrú Choille, Co. Mhaigh Eo