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School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

Location:
Baile an Chaisil, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 141

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  1. Festivals (continued)

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    Little Christmas falls on the first day of January. People light candles on that night. Everyone makes a great feast of it.
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  2. Festival Customs

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    Christmas Day 25th December -
    Christmas was in the old days the big feast of the year. All absent ones endeavoured to be at home on Christmas Eve and those who did not return wrote to their parents to buy Xmas.
    The photographs of the absent ones were place on the supper table and it was an unwritten law that all families kept to their own homes on that night visitors were looked
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    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dan Lenihan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Baile an Chaisil, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Mrs Polke
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    63
    Address
    Baile an Ghleanna, Co. Mhaigh Eo