School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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- (continued from previous page)strong drink, and giving up smoking, making resolutions to do your best always to be kind to both man and beast.It is customary for people to have roast turkey and plum pudding for dinner on New Year's day.
- Hansel Monday.Hansel Monday is the name given to the Monday after New Year's day.It is said, if you get money on Hansel Monday, that you'll never want for the whole year.It is a custom to give children money of silver on that day.Sometimes the old people collect a lot of threepences and small silver as well, because it is customary for the old people to distribute small silver to the children on Hansel Monday.
- Collector
- Phyllis Miller
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Graigue, Co. Limerick