School: Kelladone (roll number 5123)
- Location:
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Padhraic Maguidhir
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- There are several games carried on on November night. The children gather in one house in the village and the woman of the house gets a large tub of water and places it on the middle of the floor. She throws some apples into it then she ties the childrens hands behind their backs and every child on their turns try to catch it with their mouths.
Whoever catches it can eat it. It is often a child wets his face, and eyes, and head(continues on next page)- Collector
- Anthony Mannion
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killadoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Cullenagh Mountain, Co. Laois