School: Pres. Convent, Drogheda (roll number 851)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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- My grandfather told me that about sixty years ago, there was a celeberation in our Parish called the pattern. It usually took place after the harvest. There would be one man selected as the lord-mayor and he rode a donkey with a straw rope saddle and bridle. The mayor would also carry a large bough of a tree on his shoulder and this bough would be hanging with cakes of home-made bread given by all the large farmers of the parish. First the prossesion would go to the cemetery and offer up the Rosary for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Donore Road, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr F. Brady
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donore Road, Co. Louth