School: Glencairn (roll number 1179)
- Location:
- Gleann an Chairn, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Dhuibhir
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- Saint Stephen's DaySaint Stephen's Day is the day after Xmas day. Some men find more fun out of Saint Stephen's day than any other day around Xmas. Men club together and decorate wren bushes. They then hire a motor car and bring their melodeons with them also mouth organs. Then they are off from town to town. When they are coming home they go into the nearest dance hall and they end the wren day in a merry mood.
- Informant
- Mrs Flynn
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Baile an Gharráin, Co. Phort Láirge
- Saint John's Day
Saint John's day falls on the twenty fourth of June. It is a customary thing on St John's eve for people to light a bonfire on some part of the land. It is nice to look up the hills at about ten o'clock and see(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs Flynn
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Gleann an Chairn, Co. Phort Láirge