School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 204
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- (continued from previous page)him ran for their lives. After having the priest's head cut off they went down to the chapel and took the gold chalice and any thing valuable that was there.
- On the week before Easter, people go out gathering eggs for Easter. They go out in twos and threes and so on. Before they go out they select a nice journey. They take with them cans and baskets and put moss into them so that the eggs would not break.
On Easter Sunday all the families in every house eat a log of eggs, and whoever would eat the most could be reckoned the winner.
On Easter Sunday morning people get up at five o'clock to see the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Charles O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
