School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)people of the house eat more eggs than ever. They all try to eat more egges than one another, to see who would eat the most.
On Good Friday a lot of the people remain silent for three hours, from twelve, a.m. to three p.m. in memory of the three hours Our Lord was dying on the cross.
People say that if you rise early on Easter Morning you may see the sun dancing in the sky.
- May Eve falls on the last day of April, and on that evening some people make piseogs. Other people go around to all the wells and streams on their farms and shake salt in them, because they say that anyone coundn't do any harm to you(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chris Humphreys
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
