School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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- People used to play a great many tricks on a November night. They used to duck apples and they try to take money up out of a tub of water.
Then they would go out into the cabbage and pull heads of cabbage and break them against the doors of houses. They used to run and hide in some where place where they would not be caught. Some people will tie an apple with a piece of long string and sling it from the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tony Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhean, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhean, Co. Mayo