School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)
- Location:
- Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 248
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: Coill Sailighe
- XML Page 248
- XML “November's Night”
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)a ring in it. And who ever would get the ring would be married the first. Then they used to get a tub of water and get an apple and put a half crown in to the middle of it and put it in to the tub of water and it would sink to the bottom. Who ever would be the best to get the apple would have it and the money for himself. They used to leave nuts in the fire and think of names in their minds and if the nuts would jump they would be married to the one they named. If the nuts would burn away they would not get married to that one. They would leave three plates on the table put soil in one clean water in the other and dirty water in the other. Who ever would put his hand into the soil would die before a year. Who ever would put his hand in to the dirty water would marry a widow. Who ever would put his hand into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Michael Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh Lower, Co. Mayo
