Abstract: Story collected by Peg Ní Coinleáin, a student at Cill na Naomh school (Kilnaneave, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).
Original reference: 0537/4/34
School Cill na Naomh [Vol. 0537, Chapter 0004]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools
Saint John's Day [duchas:4856345]
Saint John's day is on the twenty fourth of June. It is celebrated by lighting bone fires in this District. All the young boys and girls collect on various hill. The gather rotten furs, sticks and a bag of turf. They take these to the top of the hill and make a big bone fire. They also bring with them a mouth-organ and a fluit. They spend three or four hours dancing and singing around the bone fire. Some people when the are coming home bring a burned stick them and they throw it after the cattle as the old people said is was lucky Saint John is the Patron Saint of light. There are no stories or expressions about Saint John's feast day. Peg Ní Coinleáin 8ad Mí Nodlagh
Original reference: 0537/4/34
Saint John's Day
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