School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)aloud, and wet your ear, and if it stops, it was that person who was talking.
- 1. On Hallow Eve if you dig three stalks of potatoes in the name of the Devil whoever you will be married to will come and pick them
2. Or if a man washes his shirt in the name of the Devil and leaves it by the fire, the girl to whom he will be married will come and turn it when one side is dry.
3. At Hallow Eve there is always a great supper in which potato cake is the principal dish. Another cake or barm-breac is also made with a ring, nut, and three-penny bit and a button in it. The(continues on next page)
