School: Valleymount

Location:
Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 087

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 087

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    feast.
    These men dress up in old cloths and put on coloured paper on their faces so that they would not be known.
    2. St. Patricks Day. It is customary for the people to wear shamrock.
    3. Hollow E'en/ You should not throw out water on Hallow E'en for if you do you will hear the souls in Purgatory walking.
    4. Hansel Monday. It is said if any dealer comes to your door on Hansel Monday that it is (i.e. the Monday before Shrove Tuesday) and you buy or sell anything they usually give a 3d bit or a sixpence.
    5. Shrove Tuesday Night. There are pancakes made and colconnon.
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  2. One of the old customs that used to be carried on about this locality was "ducking for apples on hallow Eve." People used to put apples or nuts into a basin of water and the person that would
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Cullen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyknockan, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mrs E. Cullen
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballyknockan, Co. Wicklow