School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)neighbours doors, or go to a widows house and listen and the first man's or girl's name you hear you are going to be married to that person.
Before Christmas boys dress up and go round the houses dancing and rhyming and get a lot of money. They are called mummers.
On Christmas Eve the old people used to eat "poundies". We call Christmas Eve the twenty fourth of December.
- Collector
- John C. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Portnablahy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- G. Mullen
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Portnablahy, Co. Donegal
