School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Cill Áirne
- Location:
- Cill Airne, Co. Chiarraí
- Teachers: An tSr. M. Déaglán An tSr. Marie Thérèse
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 285
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)or withering or burning tree was described by an old man about sixty three.The lighted bushes the old man said, were first set up in honour of the great Milesians who gave battle on May Day to the Tuatha Dé Danann. A magician of the Tuath tried to go before the Prince and kill him but in passing, they were all stopped by a bush that stood between the chief and the magician. A flame arose and the bush was burned, and since that time the May-bushes are lit by fire and left to burn, and the old people say that evil is taken away from the land, and they say no thunder or lightning or evils can ever enter the house if the May-bush is right outside it. The people dance round it and drive their cattle and also the young children through the smoke to preserve them from all evils.(See Page 48)
- Informant
- Mrs Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- An Cnoicín Dubh, Co. Chiarraí
