1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballyfeeny

School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)

Location:
Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 350

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 350

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballyfeeny
  2. XML Page 350
  3. XML “Folklore, Festival Customs”

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

  1. Folklore, Festival Customs

    Share Share Post
    Christmas
    During the twelve days of Christmas there are great festivities and amusements in every house. On Christmas day in this district the dinner is taken at dark and it consists of roast turkey or a goose and a plum pudding. Then the large Christmas cake studded with raisins and currants is attacked and all enjoy an afternoon of innocent mirth. It is a rigid rule on that day for no person to cross another's threshold.
    The day after Christmas Day is called St. Stephens Day and on that day all the boys of the village disguise themselves as wren-boys and go about from house to house dancing and singing.
    On New Year's Day and little Christmas Day there are also great feasts ad amusements.
    On the nights of theses three principal feasts of Christmas lights
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Morely
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyfeeny, Co. Roscommon