School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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- (continued from previous page)shells and put it in front of their doors. This is kept up for two days.
- There are many customs on Christmas Eve. The people light candles in ever window in honour of Jesus Christ. They also leave the door open that night.
There is mass in the chapels on that night and it is called Midnight-Mass. The people decorate their houses with holly and ivy.
The children hang up their stockings for Santa Claus to fill them with toys.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilpatrick, Co. Offaly