School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)people of all the houses used to go to confession and communion on Christmas day. Long ago the people used to have a better Christmas than they have now as things were not so plentiful as they are now they used to save up and have a great feast.
- Christmas was celebrated in a much different way in the olden days to it's celebration now. Nowadays a great supper is held in every house Christmas Eve night of every kind of sweet cakes, and on Christmas day we have a great dinner of roast turkey, and pudding etc.
Long ago on Christmas night they use to have a large pot of potatoes and an amount of beef as a cow was always, the day before the feast. After the dinner whiskey and rum was drunk for the rest of the night. As a preperation for the feast, every shelf, window, dresser and all that were in the house were covered with shelf-paper and tissue paper and not a chimney was left without being brushed with a brush. Very few clocks were in the parish(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr F. Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardagh, Co. Cork
