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School: Carraig na Heorna (2) (roll number 14976)

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Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sibéal Nic Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 397

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    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.
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  3. Halloween Customs

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    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.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Mac Grane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal