School: Presentation Convent, Baltinglas
- Location:
- Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Sr Treasa Sr Ailbhe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0916, Page 242
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The Irish people of the country - side are noted for keeping up old customs. One of the old customs is the celebration of Hallowe'en on the last day of October to which all people both young and old look forward for weeks beforehand.In almost every house, both rich and poor, a barm-brack is provided for supper. At this meal much excitement is aroused during the cutting of the Brack which usually contains a ring a button and a piece of wood. It is said that who ever gets the ring will be married, he or she who gets the button will be an old bachelor; or whoever gets the wood will be a religious. This is one of the commonest customs in this district on Hallowe'en.After that various games are played; Diving for apples, snap-apple and burning nuts. When those games are over. The people sit around the fire and tell stories about Ghosts.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sruhaun, Co. Wicklow
