School: Rathnew
- Location:
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: D. Ó Drisceóil
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- (continued from previous page)decorate it with coloured paper, candles, and egg shells. When they have it decorated they all sing and dance around the bush.
On All Souls' Day the people make calcannon. It is made of potatoes, cabbage, pepper, salt and onions.
On Shrove Tuesday the people make pancakes. They are made of flour, butter, eggs and dripping.
On St Patrick's Day the people wear shamrock in honour of St Patrick.
On Ash Wednesday the people get blessed ashes on their foreheads. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Tomáis Ó Doráin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow