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School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)

Location:
Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 460

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    On November's Night people go ducking for apples in a tub of water. The water is about one foot high in a tub. It is a custom for people to go into the nabours cabbage and bring it out on the road and kick it along the roade. Girls go into a garden of cabbage with their eyes closed. Which ever of them get the biggest head of cabbage it is sead she will get married first.
    People get three saucers and leave them on the table. They put clay water in clean water in another and dirty water in another. If one puts ones hand in the clean water they will get a clean man and if one puts ones hand in the clay water it is sead that
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Curneen, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Egan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curneen, Co. Mayo