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School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)

Location:
Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 235

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    Stories of the Holy Family
    The people leave their doors open on Christmas night and they dont put up any blind on their windows. If any person would be wandering about he would be able to come in. They leave a candle on their window to welcome him.
    One day Our Saviour went in to a house and when the woman of the house saw Him coming she did not know him. She had a cake baking. She lifted it and hid it. He went in to another house and the woman had a vest down. She gave him some of the vest. That is reason that the cooks always quench under a cake and they light over a vest.
    The reason that the people atend on the ceanog is that when Herots soldiers were looking for Our Lord: They went in to a house and asked
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
          1. the Holy Family (~429)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Gannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilsallagh Lower, Co. Mayo