School: Aughrim (C.)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean an Phléimeannaigh
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- Hallow Eve
Usually on Hallow Eve - the 31st October the boys and girls of the village dress themselves up in old clothes with masks called visors on their faces. A week before Hallow Eve they make the clothes and masks and (something) sometimes they buy masks called visors in the shops.
When Hallow Eve night arrives they disguise themselves and go from house to house and get apples, nuts and sometimes money. Some of the boys bring mouth-organs and others melodeons and have a dance in some farmhouse.
On "All Saints Night" some of the wizards also go out.
Mollie Mason,
Aughrim.
- Collector
- Mollie Mason
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
