School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 30_022
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Creganbane
- XML Page 30_022
- XML “Christmas”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Before the people go to bed on Christmas night it is right to sweep the floor and to put down a fire.
If a person dies any time after Christmas eve until after the Twelfth night, that person is sure to go to heaven.
It is right to get holly and ivy on Christmas night and to leave the holly and ivy and not stir them until after the twelfth night.
On St. Stephen's night the grown ups used to dress and to put false face on them and to go about through the villages.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
