School: Aghavoe (roll number 11772)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Lily Cooper
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 043
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- Hallow Eve in this locality is a night of great enjoyment. Boys and girls have great fun diving for apples and money in a basin of water and eating nuts, apples and other dainties. An apple is hung out of the ceiling and the children try to bite it without putting their hands on it.
The Hallow Eve brack always contains, and there is great excitement to know who will get it. It is said that the person who gets it will be married first
Sometimes a cloth, a stick, a pea, and a bean. are concealed in the brack: the cloth is supposed to be for a bachelor, a stick for an old maid, a bean for wealth, and a pea for poverty
- Collector
- Edith Wilkinson
- Gender
- Female
