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School: Droichead na Ceathramhna

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Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 441

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    The local people mostly all go to the church on Ash Wednesday so as to get blessed ashes put on their foreheads by the priest. This blessed ashes is supposed to be left on a person's forehead until it falls off.
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  2. Festival Customs

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    On Good Friday the cross is always left outside the rails in the church, and most of the people of this district go to the church to kiss it. They do this in memory of our Saviour's death on the cross
    The people of this locality always have great feasting on Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. Everybody, both young and old, eats plenty of eggs on these
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Joe Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lyonstown, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Michael Noone
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynadooey, Co. Roscommon