School: Castlejordan (roll number 15974)

Location:
Castlejordan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
M. Nic Amhlaoidh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 076

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 076

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Castlejordan
  2. XML Page 076
  3. XML “Little Christmas”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Long ago twelfth night was called Little Christmas. All the things that were left after big Christmas was kept for this feast.
    On Christmas night long ago each person in the house had his own print of butter and six or seven big sixpenny loaves were bought. The loaves were four times the size they are now. They were so big that sometimes the children used to put a board across them and make a stool of them.
    There were also twopenny loaves that time. The people always kept some of the plumpudding for Little Christmas and they finished it on that night. The holly and ivy are taken down the next day after Little Christmas and burned.
    Eat when you're hungry
    Drink when you're dry
    Go to bed when you're sleepy
    And go to heaven when you die
    You are to eat what is put before
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Epiphany (~58)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lizzie Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kildangan, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mary Coyne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kildangan, Co. Meath