School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)

Location:
Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 02_010

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090F, Page 02_010

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: Ballyburke
  2. XML Page 02_010
  3. XML “Nósanna na Nollag”

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. Years ago people had a great many old customs at Christmas. Some of them are to be found yet. They said that it was not right to leave ones own house on a Christmas Night. A candle is left lighting on each window and the door is left opened.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Anna Madden
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killadeer, Co. Mayo