St Patrick's Day

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Folklore from the old calendars

Charming the sword No longer kept IrelandUnder St Patrick's Day Hone gathered old English accounts of Irish beliefs.
Smugglers’ revels on St Patrick’s Day in Glamorgan No longer kept GlamorganSt Patrick's Day was kept with revels on the Glamorgan coast, where smugglers, wreckers and dealers in contraband held high revelry in the seaboard parishes.
St Patrick’s jaw-bone Lore and belief UlsterA family in humble life near Belfast kept a silver case said to hold the jaw-bone of St Patrick, which once had five teeth; three were given to members of the family emigrating to America and one was put under the altar of Derriaghy chapel.
The Patrick’s pot No longer kept IrelandAn Irish gentleman told Hone how St Patrick's Day used to be kept in small country towns and hamlets.
The serpent of Lough Dilveen Lore and belief MunsterAmong the seven lakes of the Galtee Mountains, between Cork and Tipperary, is Lough Dilveen.
The shamrock in the hat Still kept Ireland, LeinsterOn St Patrick's Day every Irishman who cared for the day wore a bunch of shamrock in his hat, the trefoil with which the saint was said to have taught the Irish the Trinity.