School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 213
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- A joyful night is always held in this district on "All Saints Night". It used to be a custom long ago which has died out now, to leave a little bundle of sticks by the fire side, and a bowl of water for the Saints to drink and warm themselves. And it is said that these used to be gone next morning.
Another belief which a man by the name of Thomas McCartie, an old man who use to go around working told me, that an animal like a little foal with a red light on its tail and four blue lights on its legs, used to hop over all the blackberry bushes, and it is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs J. Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
