May Day
24th June 1938
On St Martin's day people draw the blood of a fowl and sprinkle it on the four corners of the house.
May Day
On May Day nobody cleans out a cow-house or throws out ashes. Everyone would like to make to make money, but [to] spend none [on that day]. They also churn on that day and there belief is there is more butter on the milk on that day than any day during the year. No milk is given away on that either. While the people are churning on that day they would not allow a man to go out with a coal in his pipe or carrying an iron. The same belief is of the 1st January.
“INFORMANT: Mrs Kearns, Age 40, Manulla, Co. Mayo”