School: An Craoslach (roll number 10062)
- Location:
- Creeslough, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: U. Ní Pháirce
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- Halloween was the eave of all Saints day.
Long ago the people always had a big feast on that night. One of the old customs was for all the people to gather together and have a big feast and tell ghost stories about banshees and places that were supposed to be haunted. The feast consisted of poundies and wine. Then they swept the floor they boiled another pot of poundies and left them in the middle of the floor with wooden spoons around it and a crock of wine on the table, then they went home, some of them were very much afraid to do so as they thought they would meet ghosts or other things. One man on his way home was going along a very lonely road when he saw a donkey lying on the road in front of him. He leaped over the donkey and away running up the road screaming, he met a crowd coming to see what was wrong they stopped him and asked him what was the matter, and he told them his Grandfather had come back to haunt him and that he was now on the road
- Collector
- Andrew Wilkinson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Ann Mc Ginley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Kilmackilloo, Co. Donegal
