School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- An Chúil Ard, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 409
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- (continued from previous page)now the most of the people go in the buses and in motor-cars and on bicycles.
- Chalk Sunday falls every year on the first Sunday in Lent.
It is so called because all the old maids and bachelors who do not get married in Shrove are chalked on that Sunday.
It is easy to know them coming out from Mass because they are all chalked by the children and grown-ups too.
It is a great day for watching the newly married(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Inse Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Joseph Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- An Inse Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
