School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Baile Riobaird, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Duibhgeannáin
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- Easter a Sunday is the day Our Lord rose from the dead. On Easter Sunday the children of my district light a fire outside, and make tea, and boil eggs. The people eat more eggs on Easter Sunday than on any other day. All the children gather sticks on Easter eve. And then on Easter Sunday evening they light the fire. Then after a while they play football.
- Collector
- Mat Morris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stigh Mocholmóg, Co. na Mí
- On hallow eve night the people in my district eat apples and nuts. They put an apple hanging from the ceiling, the children have to put their hands behind their backs, and try to catch the