School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)Here a fire is put on and eggs are boiled and eaten. Each child brings his own eggs. Afterwards they play together.
- This a great day for playing jokes on people
- On the last evening of April it is usual to erect a "May Pole". Sometimes it is put up in the "Doiche all" (manure-heap) or in a garden or at an entrance to house. A fork, graip, or long stick put standing and on top a whin bush in blossom is placed. Below this May flowers and primroses are tied around the stick. The children play around the May Pole. It is taken down next day.
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