School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 313
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- Freak eggs are called 'four-penny-alls'. They are tiny and are usually round in shape. There is no yolk in them. They are laid at the end of a session of laying. The old peole used to put those freak eggs in the roofs of thatched houses in order to keep away fire. They are also used as nest eggs.
- The old people when setting hatching eggs used put a cross on each egg with the burnt end of a hazel stick and put them in the nest with the left hand for luck.
- Collector
- Cecilia Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
