Eve. Some the games are ducking for apples and snap apple. When ducking they put an apple in a big tub of water and one by one each person puts down her head in the tub and they try to catch the apple in her mouth. Another played is by hanging an apple out of the roof of the house and trying to take a bite out of it with the teeth.

time a skittle is knocked it is counted five. In "blind man's buff" there is a person blind-folded and he tries to get the rest of the people in the room. When playing ducking a basin of water is got and money is put into it. The person who is ducking dips his head in the water and tries to take out the money. Some of the games that are played with cards are "donkey" twenty five and "old maid".

November's Night
On November's night boys and girls have great fun ducking for apples. The old people sit around the fire, telling stories and laughing at the young boys playing tricks. A basin of water is got. An apple is put in the water and then ducking for the apple begins. Three saucers are put on the bale. Clay is

pot in the fire and they give it round to all the people at the bonfire. Everyone brings home a sod of turf and it burning from the bonfire.
NovemberOn November Night all the young boys go to the shop for ducking. When they come they put an apple into a tub of water and they go ducking for the apple. They also tie an apple on to a string and tie the string on to the rafter of the house. Then they swinging the string round and try to get a bite of the apple in their mouths. They have great fun in catching the apple to get a bit of it in their mouths.

On Novembers night all the youngsters of the village gather together in one house and they start playing games.
The games they play are “Blind Man’s Buff and ducking for apples. At about eight o clock they bring in a tub and half fill it with water and start ducking for apples. They throw an apple into the tub of water. The one that catches the apple with his mouth can eat it. After that they get the woman of the house to make a cake.
She puts a ring a three penny and a piece of a stick in the cake. The person that get the piece with the three penny bit in it will

the two nuts jump from the fire together the boy and girl will get married.
This is another trick which is very amusing. It is played with melted lead, this being put through a key into cold water to see what shape it will take. For instance if it takes the shape of a scissors the girl of boy will be a tailor or a dressmaker, or if it takes the shape of a last, you will be a shoemaker.
"Snap apple" and "ducking" for apples are the two most popular games played by the children. "Snap apple" is played in the following way. An apple is tied on a long string and suspended from the ceiling, the string being about half a foot about the child's head. Then everyone tries to get the apple, and whoever catches it in their mouth will be rewarded by keeping the apple. "Ducking" for apples is played by getting a large tub of water and placing an apple in it. Each boy bends down and tries to get the apple in his mouth.

Castle-field:
In the townsland of Cadamstown there is a field called the Castle field. A long time ago the O’Carroll’s had a castle there, but the castle has fallen, and ever since the field is called the Castle-field.The Ducking stool field:
There is a field in Ballingcarrig called the Ducking stool field/ There is a well in this field and any old woman who would be looking for too much news, she would be brought down and ducked in it and so it was called the Ducking stool field.Brian Donnelly 60 yrs.
Cadamstown
Birr
6/7/38Obdt Brian Donnelly
(Father)

people make a bonfire out in the roadside and put a bone into it. Long ago the boys used to milk other peoples cows and then buy a loaf and boil it in the milk and eat it. St Martin's Day is next. It is on the 9th of November. The people kill chickens on that day in honour of St. Martin. The children go "ducking" for Apples on the 1st of November.

Ducking is also played on that night. People get a tub of water and they leave it out on the floor. Then they put an apple down to the bottom of it by putting a penny into it. Then whoever is going to duck for the apple their hands are tied behind their back and that person duck with his head for the apple.

Last Sunday night was November's night. I invited my school companions to a feast in my house. Some of the many games that were played on that night were ducking, putting a ring cake and putting nuts down in the fire. We also got three saucers: clay in one and water in another and a beads in another. The

Last Sunday night was November's night. I invited my school companions to a feast. We played various games that night as ducking, putting a ring in a cake and putting nuts down in the fire. We also got three saucers and we put water in one clay in another and a beads in a

door. Other comrades and myself go out and pull heads of cabbage and then steal round until we are in front of someone's house and then fire the cabbage at the door and run off. I also play games in my own house namely putting money in a tub of water and ducking for it, hanging an apple from the roof and catching it in my hand.

"Beg of my neighbour." We also play draughts and this game keeps us quiet for a while. On Hallow Eve night we have ducking for the apples and snap apple.

Many games are played on November's night but the commonest is "ducking " for apples or money. A tub of water is put in the middle of the floor and an apple is put in it- whoever gets the apple eats it. Another game that is played is kicking cabbage but this game

In olden times there were a lot of games played on November Night and stories told. Specially, one of the most favourite games that are played was ducking for apples in a tub of water and hanging apples out of the ceiling. The people also make a cake with a ring and nut and sloe. According to the peoples stories the nut is for an old maid, and the sloe is for a death, and the ring is for a marriage.

listening to the old folks telling stories on winter nights. Children take great pleasure in watching the little lambs running and skipping through the fields in spring time. In summer the children go to the sea side and have great fun there. In autumn boys have great sport gathering blackberries and nuts and on November night cracking nuts and ducking for apples.

A duck was tied in a hole in the ground and 3 shots a 1d were bought.The 3 sticks were thrown at the duck's head which kept ducking up and down.

slap. Sometimes the plover is so quick in ducking his head the fellow in the centre seldom gets a slap at him. Often times he might be in the act of slapping the plover in front when he wheels of a sudden and gives the lover behind a hard slap. If the plover ducks and evades the slap the fellow in the centre has to take his place and the plover take his place in the centre.

My father told me that in olden times Hallowe'en was a great time of sport and tricks. One of the pastime was ducking in a tub of water for money and apples. Boys and girls used to go around to the neighbours' houses dressed up and dance and sing. Other tricks were takeing away gates ploughs and traps and hiding them some distance

4. Another game is ducking. Into a basin of water is put sixpence, a ring, apples and nuts. We take it in turns to duck.