School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 372
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- (continued from previous page)start mumming. They meet at a fixed place and dress up in old clothes and put on false faces so that people will not recognise them. They bring a musical instrument with them such as a French fiddle or a melodian and they act sing and dance in each house.
One acts so Room Rhyme another as "Prince George" and others are "The Doctor" "The Wren" For Butcher and so on. Each one has a different rhyme. Nearly everybody gives them sixpence or a shilling.
They go round until the sixth of January and on that night they divide the proceeds equally. Sometimes if they have enough money they get up a party and dance.
It is customary in this place to burn the holly and ivy which have been left up since Christmas under the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. It is a custom here also not to eat meat on St Stephens Day. This is supposed to keep away sickness the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Grange, Co. Dublin
