School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)the days of "Saints and Scholars". It brings forcibly to ones mind the familiar proverbA Sabbath well spent,
Brings a week to content,
And health for the toils of to-morrow
But a Sabbath profaned,
What e'er may be gained,
Is a certain fore-runner of sorrow, - Before the days of dance halls and motor cars St Stephens Day the 26th December was the young people's day. First in the morning when it was scarcely daylight the boys of every village started off on a house to house tour with "The Wren" - The were expected and were welcomed in each house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo