School: Cluain Fraoich
- Location:
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Fiachra
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- New Year's day is another great festival. On the eve of the new year the bells are chimed, to ring out the old year. In many places bands march to play out the old year.
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- Eileen Simpson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardakillin, Co. Roscommon
- Little Christmas is the twelfth night. There are generally 12 candles lit in every house. The candles are made out of rushes. The people get the rushes out of the bog and they peel them for the night, then at night they mix cowdung and ashes and they put the candles in it. Then they say the rosary. They leave the cake up on the rafters till the next year.
