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School: Cluain Fraoich

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Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Fiachra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 313

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  1. New Year's Day

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    New Year's day is another great festival. On the eve of the new year the bells are chimed, to ring out the old year. In many places bands march to play out the old year.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Little Christmas

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    Little Christmas is the twelfth night. There are generally 12 candles lit in every house. The candles are made out of rushes. The people get the rushes out of the bog and they peel them for the night, then at night they mix cowdung and ashes and they put the candles in it. Then they say the rosary. They leave the cake up on the rafters till the next year.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Epiphany (~58)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Biddy Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon