School: Clais, Athea (roll number 15100)
- Location:
- Keale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0485, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)to you it will begin at the well. On St' Johns night numbers of bonfires are seen in the county . They say people that die on Assumption day have a good chance of going to heaven . On Michaelmas day it is usual to draw the blood of some animal and it is said if you do so all your cattle will be luck for the year.
On Halloween many games are played in every house they play cards . A tub of water is got and they put it in the middle of the floor with a number of apples . The young people have great fun each of them tries to t are an apple out of the water with their mouths and they ae not allowed to toad it with their hand s as they are tied behind their backs . The person that will be able to take out the applewithout putting his to it he can keep it. They also get beans and puts a boys name and a girls name on them and they lay the two of them down on the red coals and if they jump away from each other they will not get married. They also say that people who die between big Christmas and little Christmas are sure of going to Heaven.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cool East, Co. Limerick
