School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)January. On that day the people have another great feast in honour of Christ showing himself to the Gentiles.
- It is the custom in this locality to gather shamrocks and send some of them to your relations in other countries. The people then wear a couple the whole day. At night they put them in a jar of water and leave them there till they wither.
The people of this locality go to Mass on Ash Wedensday morning to get some holy ashes on their foreheads. They also bring some of the holy ashes home to the people that could not go.
On Holy Thursday the boys mind the candles in the Church. Each server takes his own hour on that day.
A lot of children go in their bare- feet on that day because it is said that he who goes in his bare-feet on that day will not get a cold that year. The people in this locality set garlic on that day as it has a lot of cures.
Chickens or anything that are(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Carrigy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Chancery, Co. Westmeath
