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Saint John's Day

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

 Cill na Naomh [Vol. 0537, Chapter 0004]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools

COLLECTOR
Coinleáin, Peg Ní 
Gender
female

Story text

transcribed at

 

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

Resource description

Origin information
Kilnaneave, Co. Tipperary
Date created:
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 180
Volume 0537
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Ó Flannagáin.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
John the Baptist’s Day   linked data (lcsh)
Feast of St John--Féile Sin Seáin
School location
Kilnaneave Cill na Naomh Kilnaneave Kilnaneave Ormond Upper Tipperary
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5016368
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0537/4/34

Suggested credit
"Saint John's Day"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_5016368>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Mícheál Ó Flannagáin.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

School location

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