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School: Carrickallen

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Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
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A. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 225

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    small quantity of sweet milk if necessary.
    The Twelve Days of Christmas.
    The Twelve Days of Christmas have much importance attached to them.
    It is believed that the kind of weather we experience on the twelve days of Christmas represents the kind of weather we will have in the twelve months of the year respectively that is the kind of weather we experience on the first of the twelve days represents the kind of weather we have in the month of January and so on.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyunshin, Co. Cavan