School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 076
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- (continued from previous page)Part must be kept wherewith to teend
The Christmas log next year.
And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend
ban do not mischief there.
End now the white loaf and the pie,and let all sports with Christmas die"
The origin of the feast of Candlemas is lost in obscurity, but there can be no doubt that it dates from the earliest days of the Church.There was formerly a belief prevalent in many countries that good weather on Candlemas day indicated a long winter and bad crops and that bad weather on the contrary was a good omen. An old Scottish rhyme preserves this superstition.
"If Candlemas day be dry and fair
The half o' winter's to come and mair;
If Candlemas day be wet and foul.
The half o' winter's gone at Yule.
Kitty Alfred,
Cummeen,
Adare,
- Collector
- Kitty Alfred
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Cummeen, Co. Limerick
