School: Cannistown (roll number 15104)
- Location:
- Kennastown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Ghiobúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 279
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- 1. You should leave the floor swept very clean on Hallow Eve, and leave some colcannon for the holy Souls.
2. Some people go out to a Saint's Well.
3. Leave a glass of water for the poor souls. Next morning the water will be gone and only a grain of sand left in the glass. *N.B. Remarks of Teacher. Many of the pupils stress this fact of the disappearance of the water and the finding a "grain of sand" in the bottom of the glass.
Different localities and different families report similarly - are at one in this allegation of the "grain of Sand" in a dry glass.
- Collector
- Bridie Ragallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
