diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 91cdcbee2..e9fb4ab85 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dist/
 
 # Gramps
 data/tips.xml
-gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml
+data/holidays.xml
 po/.intltool-merge-cache
 docs/_build/
 
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index f63399b3a..779642329 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ recursive-include windows *
 
 # Remove files created in the build
 exclude data/tips.xml
-exclude gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml
+exclude data/holidays.xml
 exclude po/.intltool-merge-cache
 global-exclude *.pyc
 global-exclude *.pyo
diff --git a/gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in b/data/holidays.xml.in
similarity index 99%
rename from gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in
rename to data/holidays.xml.in
index 8acdf9815..7184de0ce 100644
--- a/gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in
+++ b/data/holidays.xml.in
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     <date name="Възнесение господне" value="2010/5/13" type="religious" />
     <date name="Възнесение господне" value="2011/6/2" type="religious" />
     <date name="Възнесение господне" value="2012/5/24" type="religious" />
-  </country> 
+  </country>
   <country _name="Canada">
     <date name="New Year's Day" value="*/1/1" type="national" />
     <date name="Groundhog Day" value="*/2/2" type="secular" />
@@ -117,14 +117,14 @@
     <date name="Día de la Raza" value="*/10/12" type="national" />
     <date name="Todos los Santos" value="*/11/1" type="religious" />
     <date name="Inmaculada Concepción" value="*/12/8" type="religious" />
-    <date name="Navidad" value="*/12/25" type="national" /> 
+    <date name="Navidad" value="*/12/25" type="national" />
   </country>
   <country _name="China">
     <date name="Chinese New Year" value="2006/1/29" type="national" />
   </country>
   <country _name="Croatia">
     <date name="Nova godina" value="*/1/1" type="national" />
-    <date name="Sveta tri kralja" value="*/1/6" type="national" />  
+    <date name="Sveta tri kralja" value="*/1/6" type="national" />
     <date name="Uskrs" value="> easter(y)" type="national" />
     <date name="Uskršnji ponedjeljak" value="> easter(y)" offset="1" type="national" />
     <date name="Dan rada" value="*/5/1" type="national" />
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
     <date value="*/dec/26" type="national" name="Boxing Day"/>
     <date value="*/dec/25" type="national" offset="+2" name="Christmas Day Holiday" if="dow(y, m, d) > 5"/>
     <date value="*/dec/26" type="national" offset="+2" name="Boxing Day Holiday" if="dow(y, m, d) > 5"/>
-  </country> 
+  </country>
   <country _name="Ukraine">
     <date value="*/1/1" type="national" name="Новий Рік"/>
     <date value="*/1/6" type="religious" name="Святий Вечір"/>
diff --git a/gramps/plugins/lib/libholiday.py b/gramps/plugins/lib/libholiday.py
index 998809402..b552f0c12 100644
--- a/gramps/plugins/lib/libholiday.py
+++ b/gramps/plugins/lib/libholiday.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import os
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from gramps.gen.const import GRAMPS_LOCALE as glocale
 _ = glocale.translation.gettext
-from gramps.gen.const import PLUGINS_DIR, USER_PLUGINS
+from gramps.gen.const import PLUGINS_DIR, USER_PLUGINS, DATA_DIR
 from gramps.gen.lib.gcalendar import (gregorian_ymd, hebrew_sdn)
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@ class HolidayTable(object):
             if os.path.exists(holiday_full_path):
                 HolidayTable.__holiday_files.append(holiday_full_path)
 
-        # Look for holiday files in the installation plugins directory and all
+        # Look for holiday files in the installation data directory and all
         # subdirectories.
-        for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(PLUGINS_DIR):
+        for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(DATA_DIR):
             holiday_full_path = os.path.join(dirpath, holiday_file)
             if os.path.exists(holiday_full_path):
                 HolidayTable.__holiday_files.append(holiday_full_path)
diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index 1d8f51c27..a6626f58e 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -624,7 +624,6 @@ gramps/plugins/importer/importgrdb.py
 gramps/plugins/importer/importprogen.py
 gramps/plugins/importer/importvcard.py
 gramps/plugins/importer/importxml.py
-gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in
 gramps/plugins/lib/libcairodoc.py
 gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
 gramps/plugins/lib/libhtmlbackend.py
@@ -752,5 +751,6 @@ gramps/plugins/webstuff/webstuff.py
 data/gramps.desktop.in
 data/gramps.keys.in
 data/gramps.xml.in
+data/holidays.xml.in
 data/tips.xml.in
 data/gramps.appdata.xml.in
diff --git a/po/update_po.py b/po/update_po.py
index 424198e27..c6cbea72c 100644
--- a/po/update_po.py
+++ b/po/update_po.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def HolidaysParse(filename, mark):
     msgid "Yom Kippur"
     '''
     
-    holidays = open('../gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in.h', 'w')
+    holidays = open('../data/holidays.xml.in.h', 'w')
     for key in ellist:
         if key.attrib.get(mark):
             line = key.attrib
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def HolidaysParse(filename, mark):
             name = 'char *s = N_("%(_name)s");\n' % line
             holidays.write(name)
     holidays.close()
-    print ('Wrote ../gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in.h')
+    print ('Wrote .../data/holidays.xml.in.h')
     root.clear()
 
 
@@ -538,8 +538,8 @@ def headers():
     # in.h; extract_xml
     if os.path.isfile('''../data/tips.xml.in.h'''):
         headers.append('''../data/tips.xml.in.h''')
-    if os.path.isfile('''../gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in.h'''):
-        headers.append('''../gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in.h''')
+    if os.path.isfile('''../data/holidays.xml.in.h'''):
+        headers.append('''../data/holidays.xml.in.h''')
     if os.path.isfile('''../data/gramps.xml.in.h'''):
         headers.append('''../data/gramps.xml.in.h''')
     if os.path.isfile('''../data/gramps.desktop.in.h'''):
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ def extract_xml():
     files. Own XML files parsing and custom translation marks.
     """
   
-    HolidaysParse('../gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml.in', '_name')
+    HolidaysParse('../data/holidays.xml.in', '_name')
     TipsParse('../data/tips.xml.in', '_tip')
     XmlParse('../data/gramps.xml.in', '_comment')
     XmlParse('../data/gramps.appdata.xml.in', '_p')
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8411139af..99ac2e252 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ ALL_LINGUAS = ('ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en_GB',
                'ja', 'lt', 'nb', 'nl', 'nn', 'pl', 'pt_BR', 'pt_PT',
                'ru', 'sk', 'sl', 'sq', 'sr', 'sv', 'tr', 'uk', 'vi',
                'zh_CN', 'zh_HK', 'zh_TW')
-INTLTOOL_FILES = ('data/tips.xml', 'gramps/plugins/lib/holidays.xml')
+INTLTOOL_FILES = ('data/tips.xml', 'data/holidays.xml')
 
 svem_flag = '--single-version-externally-managed'
 if svem_flag in sys.argv: