School: Cliffoney (B.) (roll number 13882)
- Location:
- Cliffony, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Patrick Mc Hugh
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- (continued from previous page)and women and the little boys and girls wear little badges or medals of St Patrick or St Briged attached to a piece of green ribbon and worn on the coat.
After second Mass the people all go home and then about 3 oclock proceed to St Patricks Well near Bunduff Bridge where the Rosary and other devotional exercises are recited by the Priests from the Parish of Kinlough. The Bunduff Band plays a selection of Sacred music at the Well.
On St Patrick's Night a Concert and Dramatic Entertainment is held in the local hall either in Cliffony or Grange. This is followed by a dance.
Thirty or forty years ago scenes of rowdyism caused by drunkeness often took place in the Parish.
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Cliffony, Co. Sligo
