School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

Location:
Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás de Búrca
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  1. The festival custom's every year in my district are on St Stephen's Day, all the boys in my district go following the wren on St Martin's Day people kill a chicken and spill the blood at the back of the door, or in the corner. On Shrove Tuesday night people make pancake's on Halween night people put a napple into a big tub of water and then try to catch it with your mouth, and on chalk Sunday rubbing chalk to bachelors back's. And on May Day stealing
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