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School: Clonmacnoise

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Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 220

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    It is an old custom especially with the children to hide the “Easter Egg”. On Good Friday a person gets a new laid egg and marks it, sometimes by making a cross on it with soot. Then the egg is hidden and must not be touched until Easter Sunday Morning. Then it will be eaten by the person who hid it.
    When putting down eggs to hatch it is considered lucky to put down an uneven number generally thirteen. The woman of the house must always put down the eggs for luck.
    Eggs are often put down to hatch on Good Friday.
    It is a custom to set eggs on a Friday for luck.
    When a hatching of eggs are down if
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Darcy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs P. Darcy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Offaly