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   the doors: If the fowl is not killed they people of the house will lose an animal.

   Shrove Tuesday:
   On Shrove Tuesday all the people who is to be married gets married on that day before the lent comes in.
   Emily Cox. Cronkell, Ruskey, Dromod

   

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   Saint Martins feast day is on the eleventh of November. He was very charitable to the poor. One day he met a begger who was naked and Saint Martin cut half his coat and gave it to the begger. Any day from the first to the eleventh of November, there is a hen killed in the house and the sign of the cross is made on the door with its blood; it is also sprinkled on the four corners of the house in honour of Saint Martin. He was also called Martin of Tours. St. Stephens: Saint Stephens day is on the twenty-sixth of December. All the boys gather together and follow the wren. They are called the wren-boys. They go from house to house; they bring a box and a whole in the top of it. Into the whole

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Giblin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Druminardly, Co. Roscommon