School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Gríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 684
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- (continued from previous page)are getting fat please put a penny in the old mans hat if you not a penny a half penny will do so God bless you and your family too.
Candles are litted to show lit to the child Jesus. Children hang up their stockings on Christmas night. The children make their mother rake the fire for fear Santa Claus would get burned coming down the chimney. A day or two before Christmas the young children would write letters to Santa and burn them and throw them up the chimney. They would say a hundred Hail Marys that he would come. If Christmas night were wet the children think he would not come. The children think that Santa Claus comes in a cart drawn by reindeers and that he brings a ladder to get up to the chimney. Every Christ the chimney is cleaned and the children used to think that it was for Santa it was being cleaned.
- Collector
- Paul Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Martin Conry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
