School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- XML “Festival Customs - Christmas”
- XML “Festival Customs - Christmas”
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- On Christmas day a sprig is placed in the pudding. whiskey is poured over it, then a match is put to it.
Anna Coleman - If you eat nine slices of different plum - pudd-ing you will get a wish. It is the custom not to cut the pudding till after dinner.
Carmel Maguire - When the house has been decorated, a yule log is brought in and burned, a little piece is sometimes kept to light the fire the following year.
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- Collector
- Mary Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Round Kilcullen it is an old custom not to buy candles on Christmas eve - at the Christmas shopping - the shop-keepers give those free, - also the making of a Christmas pudding, nice, currents etc.
Tessie Tynan - On Christmas night every child in the house get punch or wine. it is an old custom to remain with one's own family all Christmas day.
Noreen Byrne