School: Carraig na Heorna (2) (roll number 14976)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sibéal Nic Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 397
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- (continued from previous page)underneath the cabbage head –he was the future husband of the girl that placed the cabbage head over the door.
- The girl got a hay rake and rode three times round a stack of oats on the rake. Her future husband was supposed to appear to her dressed in white when she had completed the third journey round the stack of oats.
- Collector
- Bessie Myles
- Gender
- Female
- On Hallo’een night there was a cake of boxty made in every home and there was a ring put into it. Then when the bread was cooked it was cut into slices and each girl that was in the house got a slice, and the girl that got the slice with the ring in it would be the first married.
