School: Clonmore, Piltown (roll number 13420)
- Location:
- Cluain Mhór, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Aodhgáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0840, Page 025
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
- 25
St Brigid's DaySt Brigid's Day is one of our greatest feasts. On the eve of St Brigid's Day a glass of water a ribbon and a straw fade? like a cross is put outside every house. St Brigid goes around that night and blesses them all. In the morning they are taken in and put in a box and kept until the next St Brigid's Day. If you have a headache and tie the ribbon around your head after a while the pain will go. If you had a toothache and make the sign of the cross on your jaw with the water it would go. The straw is kept in the house to keep the house from being burnt.
