School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)with the pan,
Give us some silver and
let us be gone."
In the evening they all assemble and divide the money equally between them. Some call it "Boxing Day" while others regard this name to be applied to Christmas Day It is supposed to be of English origin. Old English Christmas - giving came to have a peculiar manifestation known as "boxing". Servants, apprentices, etc, used to go around at Christmas with earthen boxes to collect their Christmas gifts in the form of money(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Carr
- Gender
- Female