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School: Rahan (roll number 9096)

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Rahan, Co. Cork
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Máire Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 003

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    Another old custom of Hallow E'en. A person would get a plate of flour on that night and put a snail into it and leave it until six o clock next morning then the snail would have crept all around the plate of flour during the night - and what ever marks he would have made on the flour would be the initials of the person they would marry.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes O Leary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lavally Upper, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs O Leary
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Lavally Upper, Co. Cork