School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)
- Location:
- Durrus, Co. Cork
- Teacher: L. Blennerhassett
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- (continued from previous page)as taking an apple out of a dish of flour and taking a sixpence out of a tub of water. A barm brack is eaten for the supper and usually in it there are the following:- a stick, a ring, a rag, a pea and a bean. Whoever gets the stick he or she will beat his or her wife or husband and whoever gets the ring will soon be married. The pea is a sign of poverty and the bean is a sign of riches.
- Collector
- Susannah Jane Puburn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Pyburn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork