School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 09_058
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- Long ago they used gather all the eggs they could get the week before Easter and they used put them in a stack of straw until Easter Sunday and then they could bring all the children in the village and bring out a fire to a field and bring out bread also and eat the eggs there until they have themselvs killed eating.
If you get up at the time the sun will be setting on Easter Sunday you will see it dancing three times and it will change two a lot of different colours. I saw it last year myself.
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- Bridgie Browne
- Gender
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