School: Béal Átha Conaill (C.)
- Location:
- Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 104
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- It is an old custom not to throw out water after sunset because you don't know on whom you would throw it. It is an old custom for a girl to run around a corn stack three times and the first boy she meets must marry her.Another old custom is not to throw out water on Hallow Eve night because you might throw it on the Holy Souls.
- Informant
- Miss Yeates
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
