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School: Anabla

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Anablaha, Co. Kerry
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Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 028

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    heaven our souls will rest. Up with the kettle and down with the pan a shilling or two to bury the wren.
    Bridgid's Fay folks on the first of February. [?] night before people put false faces on and they go around from house to house gathering money. Those people are called Biddies.
    White Sunday folks on the fiftieth day after Easter People go to Ballyvourney paying rounds.
    Halloween falls on the first day of November. On November night people go to a certain house and they take apples with them. Then they get a tub of water and the put apples init. The person who catches the apple eats it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pat Kerrisk
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Inchicorrigane West, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Pat Kerrisk
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Inchicorrigane West, Co. Kerry