School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)

Location:
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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  1. We celebrate it by putting a line of twine from one corner of the room to the other. Then we get apples with stems and tie the smsll pieces of twine to them and tie the apples with the twine on to the line. We try to catch the apples with our mouths but they swing and it is hard to get them.
    Ruby Millett, 14 Ard na Greine
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ruby Millett
    Gender
    Female