School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach
- Location:
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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- Strictly speaking the expression should be holy eve, because it is the night preceding all Saints' Day.
Long ago superstitious people set it apart as a night of amusements of various kinds, they believed that the fairies celebrated hallowe'en in their own peculiar way.
The young people of the olden day assembled together on the night, then they would go into all the neighbouring cabbage gardens, making search trying to find the fairies amongst the cabbage heads, when they failed to find them they pulled(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Mulhern
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James O' Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo