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School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

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Cluain Tuaiscirt, Co. na Gaillimhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 03_032

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  1. Hallow Eve

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    Hallow Eve 27-10-1937
    Introduction
    Food
    Ganes
    Fairies
    Ending
    Hallow Eve is approaching rapidly it will be here on next Sunday night. All the children in the school are looking forward to it already. Hallow Eve is the only night in the year that children have much sport.
    Nuts, apples and barm-brack are eaten on that night. There is always a ring in the barm-brack at Hallow Eve and the person that gets the ring will get married before the year is out.
    There are also various games played by the young people on that night for example. A basin of water is got and four
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
        1. Oíche Shamhna (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cláir Ní Mhaoláin
    Gender
    Female