School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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- On hallowe'en night the boys and girls dress up and go round to the houses collecting money, nuts and apples - they call themselves wizards.
Everybody eats nuts, apples and barm brack that night.
- It is an old custom to keep a candle lit for the twelve days of Christmas.
- Collector
- Cecil Ireland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bahana (Whaley), Co. Wicklow
- It is a custom to eat a mince pie on each of the twelve days of Christmas. This brings luck for the twelve months of the year.
