School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)People say that it is luckly to find a four-leaf -shamrock on Patricks Eve.
The custom for Christmas Day is for the people to boil a plum pudding they boil a small one that they eat after their dinner.
They also put holly round their houses and light big Christmas in the window.
They also go to either first Mass or third Mass. On May day children gather primroses and make a May bush. They older children dress the younger and put a primrose crown on their head. the older children brings the younger children to the houses the people of the house gives the children money, sweets or ribbons or something else.
- Collector
- Bessie Mc Court
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Rath Lower, Co. Louth
