Unfortunately, there is frustratingly little primary documentation of how Halloween was celebrated in pre-industrial Ireland. Historian Nicholas Rogers beat written,

Games are often played, such as bobbing for apples, where apples, peanuts and Halloween Costume other nuts and product and some dwarf coins are placed in a basin of water. The apples and nuts float, but the coins, which sink, are harder to catch. Everyone takes turns catching as countless items possible using only their mouths. In some households, the coins are embedded in the grain for the children to "earn" as they catch each apple. Another colloquial game involves the hands-free eating of an apple hung on a string attached to the ceiling. Sport of divination are also played at Halloween, but are pretty less popular.