Feast Day Customs

The night of Shrove Tuesday is called pancake night. Even in the humblest of homes, there is a little feast and pancakes are eaten. On Easter Sunday, it is the custom that everyone in the family eats 2 eggs, and more if they are able.

Collector: Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Dunmore, Co. Galway

Informant: John Robinson, Killimor, Co. Galway

Place: Dunmore, Co. Galway

Footnote: Duchas, ‘The Schools’ Collection’, www.duchas.ie

On November’s night, a cake in which a ring is put, is cut and the person who gets the ring is the first to be married. November’s goose is killed on the 1^st November – it is usually the best goose in the flock.

Collector: Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Dunmore, Co. Galway

Informant: John Robinson, Killimor, Co. Galway

Place: Dunmore, Co. Galway

Footnote: Duchas, ‘The Schools’ Collection’, www.duchas.ie

On St. Martin’s Day (11^th November) people kill cocks and millers stop their mills for the day and sprinkle the blood of the fowl on the querns mill stones)

Collector: Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Dunmore, Co. Galway

Informant: John Robinson, Killimor, Co. Galway

Place: Dunmore, Co. Galway

Footnote: Duchas, ‘The Schools’ Collection’, www.duchas.ie