School: Cnocán an Teampaill, Ros Gréine
- Location:
- Knockantemple, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Nic Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0554, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)A chair is left near the fire for Our Lady to sit on and take the Blessed Babe on her lap.
A jug of water is left on the table.
The five is not quenched.
Any poor person is not refust at the door on Christmas Eve.Christmas Fare
The feasting begins at tea Christmas Night.
A big oven cake is made with plenty of fruit, eggs, butter, peel and sugar.
A barn brack is got in every house.
A Plum pudding is either made at home or bought.
A roast fowl of some kind is for the Christmas dinner a turkey, goose, duck or chicken according to peoples means.
Anyone who comes to the house round Christmas gets a drink.
The postman always gets a drink.
The people working in the house get a drink on Christmas night.
