School: Urhan (B.) (roll number 12259)
- Location:
- Iorthan, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 149
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- There are many pishogues about May Day. In the morning before the sun rises green branches are brought into the house to show the beginning of Summer.
Put out a white handkerchief before day and bring it in afterwards and if anybody is sick, rub it to them and it will cure them.
If a cow should calf on May Day they say that the cow and the calf would die.
It was also a practice not to put outside the door any red fire or ashes.
They say every one should make a churn on May Eve and not on May Day.
- Collector
- Seosaimh Ó Mhurchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cathair Choinn, Co. Chorcaí
