On St. Patrick's day all the girls wear blue ribbons and the boys gather shamrock for their jackets.

COLLECTOR
Annie M. Reilly
Gender
female
Address
Prison North, Co. Mayo

On St Patrick's day people wear shamrock in honour of Saint Patrick. Once when he was teaching the Irish people the mystry of the Blessed Trinity they could not understand how there were three persons in One God. St Patrick stooped down and picked a shamrock and showing it to them and said "As there are three leaves on one stem so there are three persons in One God".

COLLECTOR
Mary Kate Kelly
Gender
female
Address
Prison North, Co. Mayo

St. Patrick's cross used to be made with ribbon on paper for the children to wear on St. Patrick's day

COLLECTOR
Mary A. O' Doherty
Gender
female
INFORMANT
Patsy Ansbro
Gender
male
Age
84
Address
Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo