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School: Crowenstown

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Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
M. Ní Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 356

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    thorn branch is cut and put standing in the yard. Then it is all decorated with flowers and ribbons and coloured papers.
    On Palm Sunday little pieces of palm are distributed to all the people after mass. These pieces are kept for a year, and then burned.
    They are never hung in the outhouses.
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    In almost every house an altar is erected in the month of Mary in honour of the Blessed Virgin, and primroses and cowslips are put in vases before the statue.
    St. Patrick's cross is made by cutting a circle out of a piece of
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Cunneen
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    James Cunneen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisclogher Great, Co. Westmeath