School: Lappen (roll number 2020)
- Location:
- Lappan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ruanadha
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- (continued from previous page)received the gift of a handful of sheaf corn.On Halloween night - young girls would go blindfolded to a corn stack. Pull out a stalk of corn, count the pickles, this was believed to be the number of years till they would get married.
They also burned nuts. Place two nuts on a hot iron or hot ashes. One of the nuts was named their sweetheart. If the two nuts joined up & burned together they would get married. If not they would be separated.