School: Holmpatrick (roll number 14180)
- Location:
- Holmpatrick, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: D. Kevelighan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 106
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- (continued from previous page)slug in and it will leave a mark in the flour like the first letter of your future wife's or husband's Christian name.
Games.
1. On Hallow eve one of the customs in Skerries is to leave a fire lighting going to bed and to leave a table and a chair beside it with some food. If a door is left open the food is supposed to be eaten by the spirits, for whom it is left out.
2. When the barm brack is being eaten, everybody in the house must be at the table when it is being cut, which must be done by the youngest in the family, next the second youngest and so on.
Some people hang up a cabbage, with a sixpence, a threepence and some buttons concealed in the leaves. Persons put in their hands and draw out something, which they must keep.
Alan Owens
6, strand st, Skerries, Co Dublin
- Collector
- Alan Owens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Strand Street, Co. Dublin
