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  1. May Eve

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    On May Eve the boys and girls go out and gather May flowers. When they come home again they scatter these flowers around the house and at the doors of the out-houses. It is said that the May flowers keep out the fairies. Some people get Rowan tree and they put it in the thatch over the doors. It is supposed to be unlucky when a person is churning and somebody to come and take out a lighted coal. This person must give the churn a "Brash" and this takes the harm out of it. It is supposed that any person who takes water first from the well is to have the luck of the year.

  2. An Old Custom in this Parish

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    It was an old custom in this district to go round the fields on May morning and gather all the young rowan tree quicks. Out of each quick a ring was made. One of these rings along with a piece of red rag and a horse-shoe nail was tied to each cow's tail. This was done to prevent the cow being "blinked" by the fairies or by people with an evil eye. Evil-minded people used to walk through the fields on May morning carrying a "Sugan" or straw rope and by saying certain magic words they could take the milk from their neighbours' cows or the butter from the churn. It was necessary therefore to make use of the rowan trees and other things to prevent this.

  3. Butter

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    Patrick O Hara who lived in the townland of Umera about thirty years ago was churning for a considerable length without any result. He thought the good people might have taken the butter. He told a neighbour named James O Donnell who told him to make a rowan tree gad and put it on the dash the next time he would be churning and that it would bring the butter back if anything would bring it back.
    He took his neighbours advice and the next time he churned the butter was back again the same as if nothing had happened length length

  4. The Lore of Certain Days

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    It is supposed to be unlucky to throw out ashes on a Monday morning. If anyone does that, he will have bad luck for the rest of the week.
    The custom of the morning on the first of May is to put May bushes in front of the door. Some time during that day, put a branch of the rowan tree around the churn, and also over the byre door. It is supposed to supposed to keep witches from taking the butter.

  5. Omens

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    In olden times and even yet people believe in superstitions on May day. Some people tie a piece of red rag and a twig of Rowan tree to the cows tail, they believe that it will keep other people from taking their milk and butter by witchcraft, and also these people on May day would throw out no water. They would keep all the slops in the house till next day neither would they lend anything to a neighbour on that day. But they would borrow something themselves on that day. Some of these people still exist and if those people were churning they would not let you go out of their house (if you chanced to be there) without taking a brash at the churn.

  6. Festival Customs

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    money they spend it on drink, and when the boys get money they spend it on sweets.
    On May Day a common practice is to tie bits of a rowan tree and bits of red rags on the cows' tails to have good luck during the year. Some people consider it unlucky to give a drink of milk to a stranger on May Day.

  7. Superstitions

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    to get a piece of rowan tree and make a ring of it and tie a red rag and a horse stump around the ring, and tie it on the cows tail.
    (145) And they would also tie a rowan tree on the churn dash afraid the butter would be taken off the milk.
    (146) One for sorrow two for Joy three for a weddon and four for a boy five for silver six for gold and seven for a secret not to be told.
    (147) The people would say that it is unlucky to meet a red haired girl if you were going a long journey.
    (148) A crowing hen and a whistling girl should have their head cut of
    (49) If the sparks are flying
    There is money coming
    (50) If a magpie chirps three times in a bush before the door there is a letter coming.
    (51) On New Years day people did not throw out water.
    (52) If you were going to a fair with

  8. Festival Customs

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    they will have no milk for the rest of the year. Other people get up at sunrise and get a bit of rowan tree and hang it over the byre door to keep away the witches. The people used to get a basket of hawthorn blossoms and scatter them on the door threshold to keep away sickness. No one would light the first fire on May day until their neighbours lighted one first for fear of the neighbours taking away the luck. Children play many games on Hallow Eve night. They get three saucers they put clay on one water on the other and a ring on the other. Whoever puts their hand on the clay will be dead before a year. Whoever puts their hand on the water will cross the sea before a year and whoever puts their hand on the ring will be married before a year.

  9. The Care of Our Farm Animals

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    The cowhouse is a house built of stones and an iron roof on it. There is place for four cows in it, The cowhouse is also called the byre. The cows are tied by the neck with a chain to a stake standing erect against the wall.
    On May Eve a branch of a rowan-berry tree is cut and hung in the byre to bring luck on the cattle

  10. Churning

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    go to three different wells on a May morning.
    Three buckets of water would be sufficient from the three wells. What ever water the churn would be wanting it would be poured into it out of the three buckets from the different wells. Then a rowan tree 'gad' would be put on the churn staff. It was when the churning was finished that you had more butter of it; and that you had the butter of your three neighbours because you brought the water for your own churn out of their wells.

  11. May Eve Customs

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    On May Eve many different customs are observed by the people of various districts. In the meadows, yellow flowers, like large buttercups, are to be seen. The people gather them and make them into wreaths, which they hang up over the doors. These flowers are supposed to bring good luck all the year round to those who pass under them.
    On May Eve, some people go out and gather a branch of rowan berry tree. This is put round

  12. (gan teideal)

    “There is a very strange looking rowan tree growing a couple of fields away on the same farm near (Grousehall).”

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    There is a very strange looking rowan tree growing a couple of fields away on the same farm near Grousehall. It is shaped like a lamp post. The leaves, branches and berries all grow on the top. In fact it is called the lamp post by the residents. It never grows or spreads. Bernard remembers it since he was a little boy. He is now about thirty years old. No one has ever ventured to pull even a leaf for all the old people say it is gentle. Bernard used to pretend to his grandfather that he would pull a branch but he always watched him very carefully afraid he would go near it.

  13. Sayings and Customs Connected with May Day or May Eve

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    There are many sayings about May-Day, and in Ireland especially many of the old customs are still practiced. Our forefathers must have been very superstitious, for, even at the present time, some people believe that the fairies are particularly busy during May.
    Here are some of the customs which are practiced on May-Eve and on May-Day.

    (1)
    If a woman is churning, she puts a red coal into the churn before starting, so that if anyone comes in, they cannot take the butter through the exercise of any magic powers.
    II
    It is also the custom to put a branch of a chestnut tree over the door on May-Eve to keep the fairies, who are travelling from north to south, from entering the house.
    III
    To bring a blessing on your crops or your house, you are supposed to put a piece of "maypole", or rowan tree as it is sometimes called, over the door or on the headland.
    There are very many

  14. Names of Trees Peculiar to Our District

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    Names of trees peculiar to our district:-
    Apple tree
    Plum
    Damson
    Sycamore
    Beech
    Oak
    Fir
    Pine
    Scotch fir
    Rowan tree
    Alder tree (boortree)

  15. Ossianic Tale

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    When the pup grew to be a hound Oisin suggested to the boy that they should go for a hunt. They fixed a certain day. When the day arranged for the hunt came the boy put a rope on the hound's neck and they set off.
    They climbed a very high hill. When they reached the top Oisin told the boy to look round him to see what was on the summit. "There is a big rock here said the boy and it is covered with ivy every leaf of which is as big as a riddle. There is also a rowan-berry tree every berry of which is as big as my head."
    Go said Oisin and bring me a leaf of the ivy and one of the rowan

  16. An Old Story

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    A long time ago it was said there was a well in Ossory shaded by a rowan tree. When the berries became ripe they would drop into the waters and be eaten by the salmon that lived in the well. Red spots would then appear on the fish and they received the name of Salmon of Knowledge.
    It was not easy to catch these salmon. At any sign of danger they would retreat into the cavern from which the waters flowed that supplied the well.
    Sometimes however, a salmon was caught. Then the fisherman as soon as he had eaten it

  17. May Day

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    Long ago on May morning before the sun rose. The people cut a rowan tree rod and pared the outside skin of the rod and made it in to a round shape with a hole in the middle to go in on churndash and down over the lid of the churn. Some people wouldn't let milk out of the house on May day.
    St Martin's day
    It is right to kill something before and to spill some of the blood away
    29/8/38

  18. May Day

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    May day comes on the first day of May. There are a lot of customs connected with it. The old people say it is not right to put down a fire early on May morning or to put out the ashes either. It is said that if a stranger brings water out of a well in the village that he will bring the butter out of that village. It is also said that if you get up early on that morning and wash your face with the dew on the grass you will be healthy during the year. If you put a rowan tree up the Chimney nothing can bring the butter out of the house. They say it is not right to get married on the 28th December,
    Anthony Clark

  19. Melvin's Waters Blue

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    They left their nativ plains behind and
    Melvins waters blue.
    In sailing down by Laureen house you will catch that sweet perfume,
    Of many a rich and fragrant flower well kept in rich and bloom,
    Or standing on the wooden bridge as with a spell bound tie,
    You will forget all other scenes except those beneath your eye,
    Go futher down the stream and see the eel wire old and gay,
    Through which Bundrouras takes its course from Laureen sheltered bay,
    Or view those groves of Irish [blank] with ash and oak tree too
    Again I say farewell to all around Melvins Waters blue.
    The thrush will sing the live long day upon the old Rowan tree,
    But I wont hear her oft heard song when

  20. How the River Shannon Got its Name

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    A long time ago it was said there was a well in Ossory shaded by a rowan tree. When the berries became ripe they would drop into the waters and be eaten by salmon that lived in the well. Red spots would then appear on the fish and then they received the name of "Salmon of knowledge".
    It was not easy to catch this salmon at the sign of danger he would retreat into the cavern from which the waters flowed that supplied the well.
    Sometimes however a salmon was caught. Then the fisherman as soon as he had eaten it found himself gifted with the knowledge of all things even as Fionn, son of Cumhall, was gifted when he had tasted of it the boiled Salmon of the