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School: Lappen (roll number 2020)

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Lappan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Seán Ó Ruanadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 148

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    received the gift of a handful of sheaf corn.
    On Halloween night - young girls would go blindfolded to a corn stack. Pull out a stalk of corn, count the pickles, this was believed to be the number of years till they would get married.
    They also burned nuts. Place two nuts on a hot iron or hot ashes. One of the nuts was named their sweetheart. If the two nuts joined up & burned together they would get married. If not they would be separated.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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