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School: An Charraig

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

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  1. Festival Customs - May Day

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    An old custom is carried on in my locality. Some people pull flowers and decorate some trees at their doors. Others pull primroses and cover the doorstep with them.
    Others pull a rose bush and put flowers of all kinds on it.
    Others still put up a May altar and cover the Blessed Virgin statue with primroses.
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  2. Festival Customs - St Stephen's Day

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    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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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Feast of St Stephen (~402)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Goldrick
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Freeduff, Co. Cavan