On Easter Sunday morning we first go to Mass. when we come home we have our breakfast. We make a fire, and we make tea and we have sweet-cakes and eggs in a field if the day is fine.
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On St. Patrick's day all the girls wear blue ribbons and the boys gather sham-rock for their jackets.
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St Stephen’s day is a happy day for all the boys. It falls in the 26th December.
The night before the boys go out with lamps searching for wrens.
On November's night we all get a couple of stones of apples in Balla.
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About 96 years ago there was a great famine in Ireland. The potatoes and all the crops rotted. The people were starving and dying with the hunger.
INFORMANT: Mr Ruane, Age 48, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
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About twenty years ago every farmer in this district had a lime kiln. This was a hole dug int the ground and built with stones.
INFORMANT: William Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
The marriage of my uncle and aunt took place a year ago in the parish of Balla, in the month of April. They had 4 motorcars and thirty of the nearest relations with them.
INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
These are the names of the tinkers most common in the Parish of Straide, in the Barony of Gallen, in the town land of Tavanagh, Co; Mayo.
INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 47, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
Potatoes are the most common crop the farmers grow round this district in the village of Tavanaghmore, Parish of Straide in the Barony of Gallen.
INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
My home district is in the Parish of Straide the Barony of Gallen the town land of Tabhanachmóre Co;Mayo.
COLLECTOR: Margaret Ruane, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
Three drops out of a trout's mouth, or the ferrets leavings will cure whooping cough.
INFORMANT: Annie Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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One night there were two boys coming home from visiting. It was about twelve o'clock. They heard lovely music inside; they listened for a while and they began to dance. When they started they could not stop until the cock crew in the morning. After that they were the best dancers in the country. INFORMANT: John Kelly, Address, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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The following are the names of the birds most frequently found in Prison.
COLLECTOR: Mary Kate Kelly, Address: Prison North, Co. Mayo
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My father has a farm of land about 14 acres. It is divided into fields by sod ditches.
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A week before the marriage took place the match was made. The two parties met at some house. They agreed for a certain sum of money. About £50 was a good fortune that time. Then a day was appointed for the marriage.
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On St Bridget's night all the little girls go round to the houses with the brídóga.
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There is a Forge in the parish of Balla Barony of Carra Co. Mayo.
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INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Address: Prison North, Co. Mayo
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