School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Baile Shéamais Dhuibh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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- (continued from previous page)beats her children again. Then she asks her children where are the things she sent them for, they all name different places and she asks them how is she to get them there in such a place. They say they don't care and she says if she were killed getting the goods where would they bury her and all say in the pig's pot and she beats them once again and so the happy game is ended
- St Stephen's Day:- On St Stephen's Day school boys and old folk dress up in old clothes. The school boys put on old, coloured coats and hats They bring a fiddle and a money bag with them to gather(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Viola Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coillidh Fionnlacha, Co. an Chabháin
