School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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- (continued from previous page)at easter is to eat as many eggs as we can. Halloween is another festival custom.
On that night the children tie apples from the ceiling and money is put in a basin of water and they try to catch them in their mouths. The grown-ups takes gates and bring them a short distance and hide them. Betty Dunne.
From,
Michael Dunne
Aged 64 years
The Downs Mullingar
Born in and living in the Downs- Collector
- Betty Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Michael Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath