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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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An Baile Glas Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
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  1. Saint John's Night

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    The people in every village makes a big fire St Johns night and that night falls on the 23th of June. The small people gather a lot of sticks and turf the evening before and they leave them where the fire is going to be.
    Then the next evening all the people gather to the fire and they have musical instruments and they play them until they go home.
    The people get a sheal and they light the top of it in the fire and the shake it into the their gardens and they think they will have a better
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    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
        1. Féile Sin Seáin (~208)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Moylan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ráth Choscraigh, Co. na Gaillimhe