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School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)

Location:
Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 157

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  1. How Christmas is Spent Locally

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    About a fortnight before Christmas about eight grown-up men gather together and go in procession from house to house. They are all dressed up with long white coats and tall hats with ribbons hanging from them. They say rhymes and sing and dance.
    They are called "Christmas rhymers".
    When Christmas Eve comes the children all hang up their stockings for Santa Claus to put something in them.
    The houses are always decorated with holly and ivy. In some houses the people have paper decorations.
    The decorations are put up six days before Christmas and kept up until six days after it.
    People always have a big dinner that day. If there is a big family the people get a goose or a turkey. If not they get a cock or a hen. Some of the people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Malin, Co. Donegal