School: Ceathramhadh-an-Uisge / Carrowniskey (roll number 8719)
- Location:
- Carrownisky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- A few days after Christmas day each year, a crowd of juvenile boys from my place gather together into a certain house. There they dress themselves in white shirts, and they each put on a false face. They then get a piccolo, and they go around from house to house. In every house they dance and play and when they have finished dancing, one of them rattles a box, which he carries, for holding whatever money they get.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christinia Ní Giubiún
- Gender
- Female