School: An Charraig

Location:
Carrick, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Ó Tiománaí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 113

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  3. XML “Festival Customs - May Day”
  4. XML “Festival Customs - St Stephen's Day”

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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. May (~639)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Gaffney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Freeduff, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Joseph Gaffney
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    16
    Address
    Freeduff, Co. Cavan
  2. St Stephen's Day is most delightful feast of the year. All the young folk and grown ups both boys and girls in this district travel around on that day.
    They go in separate groups all trying to be first at the houses and in some cases the young folk hide on the older ones for fear they would
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