School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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- (continued from previous page)this dance to the music. When doing this dance, a man gets down on his hunkers and dances round the floor always keeping one foot out straight in front of him, and he must not stumble nor touch the ground with his hands. The little boys can keep time to the music and do that dance well.
The "Frog Dance" is done in this district too, and it is usually boys and men that dance it. A boy goes on his hunkers in the middle of the floor and puts the right foot out sideways and then he draws it in again under him quickly and puts out the left one sideways and so on round the floor without useing his hands to balance himself or to touch the ground . It can be danced to jig time.
- Collector
- Brigid Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carvagh, Co. Donegal
- Collector
- Susan Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Linsfort, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Carvagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Phil Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Linsfort, Co. Donegal
