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School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

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Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036D, Page 02_009

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    custom that night and these are some of the tricks. They get a bath of water and they put an apple into it. Then someone in the house takes off his coat and he tries to catch it. They put sixpence or a shilling into the bath also and they live their heads into it to try to get the money They get wet also and if anyone gets the money they can keep it but it is very hard to succeed in getting the money.
    The woman of the house makes a cake and
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Holland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fiddaun, Co. Galway