School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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- Well! it is the custom for the little children to gather all the eggs in order to have them for Easter Sunday. It is also the custom for the people not to sell Good Friday eggs, because they say that if you sell the eggs you get on Good Friday you give away the luck of your eggs for the rest of the year.
The young people visit the Blessed Sacrament on that morning.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Offaly