Goal Est (August feast), also known as Galan Est (August First) is the Cornish equivalent to Lammas or Lughnasadh. It marks the cutting of the first wheat. Celebrated every year on August 1st, there are scant records about it’s folk customs aside from Morvah Fair, where people would come from all over the county to eat and drink copious amounts.
The amount of revelry incited a priest to go on a campaign in the 19th century to ban the fair. Regrettably, it worked and there was nothing held until the 1970s. There was an effort to bring it back & strengthen the community in the form of Pasty Day - which is now an annual event held on the first Tuesday of August!
Some sources -
The Cornish Traditional Year, Simon Reed (pages 21 - 25)
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