School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 180
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Robertson
- XML Page 180
- XML “Festival Customs”
- XML “Festival Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Easter. the children go out to the fields and boil eggs and eat them outside.
- Hallows'Eve. Oaten bread and pounding are made also when a large cake of bread is being made a ring, button, three-penny piece a thimble are put into it. The person who get the ring will be married soon, whoever gets the button will be an old maid or old bachelor, the person who get the 3d will be rich and lastly who-ever get the thimble will be a dressmaker.All Souls Night. All the souls night the dead are supposed to rise and a great fire is put on & the doors locked because the souls are said to go into the house for shelter. The ashes are shanken about and in the morning the tracks of the souls feet are to be seen on the ashes.
- Collector
- Rhoda Devlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 17
- Informant
- Mrs Devlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
