St Stephen's Day

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.

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St Bridget's Day

On St Bridget's night all the little girls go round to the houses with the brídóga.

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Old Forges

There is a Forge in the parish of Balla Barony of Carra Co. Mayo.

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Old Sayings

INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Address: Prison North, Co. Mayo

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Churning

We have a churn at home. We have it two years. It is two feet in length and sixteen inches broad. We make a churning once a week in it.

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A Story

Once upon a time there was a man who had three sons.

When the eldest of them was twenty-one his father thought it was time for him to go and seek his fortune, so he gave him a hound a hawk and a filly and his blessing and he set off on his way. He travelled along for a week and a day till he came to a rich farmer's house.

INFORMANT: Tom Adams, Age 47, Prison North, Co. Mayo

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A Lightning Storm

One night about sixty years ago a great lightning storm arose. There was an old man and an old woman in Roxtown near Balla.

INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Prison North, Co. Mayo

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A Fairy Story

Once upon a time a widow and her son were living in a little cottage. The man went out in a field scoring for potatoes. There was a bush in the middle of the field in his way and he dug it up. INFORMANT: Mary Mc Donnell Age, 76 Prison North, Co. Mayo