School: Belvoir, Kilkishen
- Location:
- Belvoir, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0586, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)that name. The old people say "he brought home his name". Girls here are called Patricia or Paudeen, sometimes but not often.
The 19th March feast of St. Joseph will have the name added to Patrick.
- Christmas day is the greatest feast of the year. Great preparations are made for it. Every house is cleaned inside and outside. The walls pressess pictures are decorated with holly, preferable berry holly and ivy.
Food is much better and more plentiful. Cake with sugar butter fruit and if plentiful eggs are made Some make much richer cakes - but the ordinary people make the cakes I said. For some weeks(continues on next page)
