School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall
- Location:
- Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 051
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- (continued from previous page)October. It is a night of great feasting and merry making. Everyone eats nuts, apples, sweetcakes. Children duck in a basin of water for nuts and apples. Children also play many tricks that night. Boys go about from house to house throwing heads of cabbage at the doors.
- There is a farm of land, owned by Mr. Gallagher about one mile from the Ardcarne cross-roads. There are many caves in it. There is supposed to be gold hidden in one of those caves. It was hidden by the Danes. It is said that two men(continues on next page)
