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School: Kelladone (roll number 5123)

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Killadoon, Co. Mayo
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Padhraic Maguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137C, Page 04_009

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    The old people say that the departed souls return to their old homes on that night. It is also an old custom to leave heads of cabbages at the doors of the poor people who had no cabbage.
    On that night all the old men of the village gather into one house and tell stories and fairy tales. It is said that dreaded fairies wander over hills, and fields, and destroy the blackberries so that they cannot be eaten.
    I heard above story from an old man called
    Patrick Keane
    Kelladone
    (Aged 83)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anthony Mannion
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killadoon, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Cullenagh Mountain, Co. Laois