School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 39
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- (continued from previous page)money is asked to it.
- One of them comes in and falls dead and then the “doctor” comes and cures him.Another one comes in with straw on his back and says “Here come I, Jack Straw,
Such a man you never saw.
Through a reach, through a reel,
Through an old spinning wheel.”They dance and sing and collect money. - At Hallowe’en tricks are played in nearly every house. An apple is tied up to the ceiling and two people “haunch” at it until whoever gets a bite of it first. Another trick is to put a basin of water on the floor with a sixpenny piece in it. Whoever(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kerrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Florence Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
