School: Báinseach, Cill Chaoi (roll number 11714)
- Location:
- Kildeema, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0625, Page 336
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- (continued from previous page)treacle, pepper, salt, soda, mustard, salts, ginger, sulphur, and sugar that would nearly kill them when they would eat it. The people go on a wren on St Stephen's day but it is very few wrens now that bring the dead wren on the bush. About a month or so before Xmas each company would go out and kill a wren. When they would bring him into the house they would put him into a starch box and put him up in the corner the way he would not rot. Long ago the old women would buy a pound of tea for the Xmas between then and drink it in the men's absence. People white-wash the houses before Xmas. We put straw under all animals in the farmyard on account of Our Lord being born among cattle and he had a bed of straw. It is a custom nowadays for children to hang up their stockings Xmas night for Santa Claus to fill them.
- Collector
- John O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullaher, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs J. Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Tullaher, Co. Clare
