About two or three miles from Dublin on the great Northern road is a village called Finglass. A high pole is decorated with garlands, and visitors come in from different parts of the country, and dance round it to whatever music chance may have conducted there. The best male and female dancers are chosen king and queen, and placed on chairs. When the dancing is over they are carried by some of the party to an adjacent public-house, where they regale themselves with ham, beef, whisky-punch, ale, cakes, and porter, after which they generally have a dance indoors, and then disperse. There is an old song relating to the above custom, beginning “Ye lads and lasses all, to-day, To Finglass let us haste away, With hearts so light and dresses gay, To dance around the maypole.”-- _Every Day Book_, vol. ii. p. 595. On May-day also, or on the preceding night, women put a stocking filled with yarrow under their pillow, and recite the following lines:-- “Good morrow, good yarrow, good morrow to thee; I hope ’gain [by] the morrow my lover to see, And that he may be married to me; The colour of his hair, and the clothes he does wear; And if he be for me may his face be turned to me; And if he be not, dark and surly he may be, And his back be turned to me.”-- _N. & Q. 4th S._ vol. iv. p. 505. MAY 2.] ST. HELEN’S DAY--ROWAN-TREE DAY. YORKSHIRE. From the following passage in Atkinson’s _Cleveland Glossary_ (p. 417), it would appear that this is known in that district as St. Helen’s Day; although the feast, properly so called, is held on August 18th (which see). The transfer seems to have originated in the fact that the Invention (or Discovery) of the Cross was due to St. Helen, who was thus connected with the feast kept on May 3rd under that title.