School: Tenure (roll number 2326)
- Location:
- Tinure, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Cathail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 263
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Customs connected with
St. Patricks Day.1. At present the children of Tenure wear shamrock on St. Patricks day.
2. The old people wear shamrock also.
3. The men wear the shamrock on their caps on the left hand side and the women wear it on the fronts of their coats.
4. About quarter of a century ago the girls of Tenure made their own badges in the school to wear on St. Patricks day.
5. They used to get pieces of white paper and cut them into a round shape.
6. Then they used to sew on two pieces of green ribbon together in the shape of a cross and sew it into the round piece of paper.
7. On St Patricks day the girls of Tenure used to wear those crosses on their shoulders.
8. Mrs Connolly who now lives at Tenure said that when she was a girl she lived in Fieldstown and that the girls of Fieldstown used to make badges.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Mc Cullough
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
