School: Corraslira
- Location:
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhláin
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Corraslira
- XML Page 105
- XML “Customs of the Twelfth Night”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)We then write out twelve names on twelve bits of paper. We then put the rushes in a cake of cowdung.
The candle that dies the first person will be the first to die. The rosary is usually said on that night. That night it was called "Little Christmas" long ago. Some people buy candles in the shops yet. If two candles go out together, they will be buried together. Everyone has great fun on that night.- Collector
- Annie Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonard Beg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Edward Holmes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annaghbeg, Co. Roscommon