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School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)

Location:
Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 264

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  1. Emblems and Objects of Value

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    In parts of Ireland up to the present day there are emblems kept from a certain day in the year to that day twelve months, such as water from a holy well, the Irish people believed in cures from such.
    At Christmas people always decorated their houses with holly and ivy from Christmas eve to the 6th of January, a great coloured candle was lighted in the window, but the candle custom is more or less gone out of use.
    On Palm Sunday the palm got from the priest
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommie Tuite
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath