School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)
- Location:
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Glacáin
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- (continued from previous page)go to confession for the scapulars. They receive that day in honour of the Blessed Virgin.
Hallowe’en night. That night they be making tricks. They get nuts and they burn them and they name some boy and girl and they say if the nuts jump that they will be married. They have another trick. They get a basin of clear water and a saucer of clay and they write three names on three pieces of paper and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Other names
- Anna Ní Méallaigh
- Annie Melley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Melley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Dhún na nGall