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School: Clonmore, Piltown (roll number 13420)

Location:
Clonmore, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0840, Page 026

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  1. Festival Customs - St Patrick's Day

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    St Patrick's Day is another of our great feasts. On that day all the people wear shamrock and a badge of St. Patrick. They do that to honour St Patrick. St Patrick's Day fall on the seventeenth of March and it is a holy day of obligation. It was on that day that St Patrick died.
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  2. Festival Customs - Christmas Day

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    We all are very glad when Christmas comes. We have holidays from school. The young children get sweets, oranges, apples and chocolate from Santa Claus. Some of them get toys and other things. It was on that day that Our Lord
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