School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 042
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caroreigh
- XML Page 042
- XML “Halloween”
- XML “Local Roads”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)fun begins trying to catch the money in the mouth. Two pieces of wood are got and put in the form of a cross, an orange is put on one side, a piece of soap on the other, an apple on the other, and a candle on the other side. The cross is turned around quickly and everyone trys to catch the fruit and avoid the rest.
On the 2nd November is All Souls and on that night a candle is lit in the window of almost every home the show the Holy Souls light because it is said that they are free from their sufferings on that night
- Long ago there were a lot more roads than what there are now. There was a road from Tottenhamgreen out to the Goatstown lane and an Avenue went from that to a gentleman's house in Hopefield. In the famine times many roads were made and their wages were one penny a day.When they were making the Shanoule lane two men died with hunger. The bought a loaf on Monday and they were found dead on that day week.
- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seanabhaill, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- James Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Seanabhaill, Co. Loch Garman
