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School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

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Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
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An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 173

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  2. Festival Customs

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    In my home district of Drumsna the town and country boys gather together and march from place to place carrying torch lights and drums.The torch lights consist of big poles with sods of turf blazing on the top of them.This is done every New Year's Eve to beat out the Old Year and to beat in the New year.
    The Twelfth Night:
    On this night it was the custom in Ck-on-Shannon district and other surrounding districts to make a cake, twelve inches in diameter, out of cow's manure and roll it in ashes and then
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