Lammas. © Ilona / pixabay.com / 2016 / CC0 1.0
Lammas is observed on the 2nd of August.
It is an Irish holiday that follows the day after Lughnasadh.
While Lughnasadh was merry-making, on Lammas thanks would be given for the coming grain harvest by prayers and offerings of bread. Loaves of bread, including a Lammas Bannock, would be made on this morning from the new grain.
The day is more of a Christian tradition superimposed on the pagan one of Lughnasadh.
Fairs would sometimes be held on the day following Lammas.
The word “lammas” is presumed by some to be a contraction of “loaf mass.”
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Lammas Fair in St Andrews, Scotland (2007). © Sandy Gemmill / http://www.geograph.org.uk / 2007 / CC BY-SA 2.0