School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)the same also on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
On Easter Saturday every child hides his own eggs and eat them in the Easter house on Easter Saturday. An Easter house is a round wall of stones with a fireplace in the middle.
On May Eve the people gather Yerragh and they must have three separate pieces. Then they say to the Yerragh "Good morrow God, morrow fair Yerragh and thrice good morrow to thee,
Tell me before this time to morrow, who my true love will be,
The colour of his hair, and the clothes that he wears,
And the words that he'll(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John C. Mullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Portnablahy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- G. Mullen
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Portnablahy, Co. Donegal
