School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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- Hallow E'en is on the 31st October.
The children generally spend the night eating nuts and apples and playing games.
They usually have a cake with a ring button, thimble and a threepenny piece in it. If you get the ring you will be married first. If a boy gets the button he will be a bachelor. If a girl gets the thimble she will be an old Maid.
They have other cakes too but the special ones are barm bracks, apple-cakes and apple-dumpling.- Collector
- George Hepburn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lettergull, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- John Hepburn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 48
- Address
- Lettergull, Co. Donegal
- Long ago the people used to do a lot of mischief one one another at Hallow E'en. One of their tricks was to get a kale stalk and cut a hole up the inside of it and put tow in one end of the stalk. Then they dropped in a red cinder and put more tow in the other end then the held one end to the keyhole and blew through the other end(continues on next page)