School: Baile Stiabhna, Askeaton (roll number 7900)
- Location:
- Baile Stiabhna, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 347
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- (continued from previous page)was carried out during Shrove but is not practiced so frequently now. On Shrove Tuesday night pancakes are made and baked with the Christmas holly. The pancakes contain a gold ring and a button. The person who gets the ring will be married before the feast again. The person who receives the button will remain unmarried.On Ash Wednesday people visit the Churches to receive ashes on their foreheads and take some home to the people who can not attend. The rest is kept as a cure during the year. On Chalk Sunday the people who ought to be married and have not received the sacrament are chalked.On Holy Thursday the people visit the Churches and adore the Blessed Sacrament which is exposed.On Easter Saturday morning Easter water and blessed turf are distributed to the people.On Easter Sunday eggs are put down in cold water containing furze blossoms and grass. When boiled very hard they are taken up and rolled on the hills by the children. On St Martins day an animal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eva Kenrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Chanánaigh, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- John Kenrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile an Chanánaigh, Co. Luimnigh
