School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)
- Location:
- Killinure, Co. Laois
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhubhlainn
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Easter Sunday
I On Easter Sunday there is a great number of eggs eaten by the children of each house.
II On Easter Sunday some time during their life every one in this district tries to get up before 5 o'clock to see the sun dancing.
III If you eat a Good Friday egg (that which was layed on Good Friday and on which a cross is put) on Easter Sunday morning you will never be sick the whole year round.
IV Another old custom is to put a saucer of water in the window and to look into it and you are supposed to see the sun dancing in it on Easter Sunday morning.
