School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 126
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- (continued from previous page)which contain a ring, a thimble, a match, a pea, a bean and many other things while everybody is anxious to know what he will get. Many games are then played. Apples are hung from the loft and are placed in a tub of water and everybody attempts to snatch an apple without using his hands. Three basins are also got, a basin of earth, a basin of water and a basin containing a ring. Some person is then blindfolded and he puts his hand into some one of the basins
Long ago a party of boys called "Straw Boys" - because of the suits of straw they used to wear, used to visit every house singing songs and gathering money
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- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs M. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
