School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 185
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- St Martin's Day. It is the custom for every household to have a fowl for dinner, and no wheel should be turned.Twelve Days of Christmas - If the twelfth day of Christmas is good, the whole year is supposed to be good.St Stephen's Day - All the young boys of the district dress up. They put on false faces and disguise themselves and they go about dancing and singing."The Wren, the wren, the King of all birds
On St Stephen's Day he was caught in the furze
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
Give me a penny and let me be gone."St Bridgid's Day. Crosses are made out of rushes and straw and stuck in the rafters, and sometimes the age of the house can be told by the crosses if one is stuck up every year.Shrove Tuesday - On that night some of the boys of the district dress up and bring boot blacking with. They go knocking at the doors(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose J. Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drum East, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drumkilsellagh, Co. Sligo
