School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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- St. Stephen's day falls on the twenty sixth of December. It is a great day for the young boys and girls. On that day the young boys and girls go out from house to house collecting money.
They put on old clothes and they cover their faces with false faces. The get a piece of a table cloth and they cut the place of the eyes, the nose, and the mouth in it. Then they put strings in it for tying it on their faces. Then they go from house to house playing a fiddle and singing songs. When they go into a house(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maisie Donnelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkilleen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Michael Donnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 60
- Address
- Carrowkilleen, Co. Mayo