School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 36
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- (continued from previous page)first bite gets the apple. Others get a basin full of water and put an apple into it, and there is great sport when someone gets all wet.
On Easter Sunday a lot of boys and girls have little houses outside which are called Easter houses and there is a fire inside of the little house to boil the eggs.
- In this parish before Christmas we have what is called mummers:- A group of usually six boys dress up in disquise and they take a fiddle, a melodeon and drums and go round the houses and perform in every house. Sometimes one is dressed up as "Jack Straw". He has a high(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laetitia Coll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- E. Coll
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
