School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mín Riabhach
- XML Page 48
- XML “Festival Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The mummers around this district about two weeks before Christmas. They go to some house and dress themselves. They start out when it gets dark, and go round the house until bedtime.
The following are the names of the mummers.
Father Christmas, Prince George, Prince Patrick, Doctor Browne, Big Head, Beljie-Bub, Jack-straw, Devils-dout, Master man of the play, and New-year boy.
When Father Christmas comes into the house he says-
“Here comes I old Father Christmas. When I come I bring good joy. It was acted on stages and acted on floors, but it never will be acted better than it will be acted inside your door.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievecloghoge, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Dan
- Other names
- Dan (local name)
- Mr Patrick Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal