School: Lacken (B.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13826)
- Location:
- An Leacain, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: M. Ó Maonaigh
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- (continued from previous page)tea and eat only baker's bread.
On Chalk Sunday the children go around with chalk chalking those who were old enough to marry bud did not before lent
- May Day On May Eve every person used lock the door of the cow-house so that nobody could go into it and milk the cows and steal the butter The first person to go to the well that morning and bring water from it would have plenty of butter during the year. They used go out early in the morning and wash their faces in the dew and let the sun dry them so that the sun would not burn them during the Summer One of the family used go out and cut a piece of black-thorn and furze and bring them in as a token to welcome the Summer. They used put nails into the well and they would not give away milk without putting salt in it so no person would steal their luck.
- Collector
- Proinsias O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cathair Cheannabháin, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Michael O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cathair Cheannabháin, Co. an Chláir
