School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 02_028
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- (continued from previous page)Epiph.
This feast is generally called the "Twelfth Day". On that night twelve small candles are lit and they signify twelve days after Christmas. From the oldest person in the house to the youngest. Their names are put on the candles. The candle that dies out the first it is said the person's name which is on that candle will be the first to die in the house.
St. P. Day
On this day the children wear badge's. Some of them are shaped like a harp and others made of a green ribbon and a medal.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Galway
