School: Faltia
- Location:
- Faltia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas Quinn
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- (continued from previous page)it. On Good Friday the people sow the first potatoes because it is a lucky day.
The people eat more eggs on Easter Sunday than any other time of the year. On Saint Martin's night the people kill a cock and sprinkle the blood in the four corners of the house. On twelfth day the people light twelve candles, whosever dies first will die first.- Collector
- Patrick Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Tully, Co. Roscommon