School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 433
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- Emblems are tokens of honour for certain feast-days.
On May-day primroses and white thorn are the chief emblems. Primroses are gathered by the children and made into a bunch and put on a pole called a may pole. Primroses are also scattered on the door-steps of every room in the house to welcome Summer.
Christmas emblems are usually holly and ivy. These are put behind pictures, on the windows, etc. to decorate as well as to honour our Lord. Another reason is that these are the only green shrubs at that time of the year.
Artificial is sometimes used instead of ordinary holly and mistletoe is also another emblem.
- Collector
- Mary J. Fallon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyhubert, Co. Roscommon
