School: Abbeylara
- Location:
- Abbeylara, Co. Longford
- Teacher: John O' Meara
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- (continued from previous page)yarrow under their pillow when they are going to bed. It is said that if they do this they will see the person they will be married to in their dreams. On Christmas Eve the people put lighted candles in their window in memory of the night when the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph could not get lodgings in the houses in Bethlehem. The candles are to guide any person who is wandering about with no home to go to.Mary A. O'Meara,
Abbeylara,
Streete,
Co. Westmeath- Collector
- Mary A. O' Meara
- Gender
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- Abbeylara, Co. Longford