1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Virginia (C )

School: Virginia (C )

Location:
Virginia, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs B. Farrelly
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 492

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 492

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Virginia (C )
  2. XML Page 492
  3. XML “Festival Customs”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Festival Customs (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    friends, and the people in this country that has friends in America or other places, send post-cards to them.
    On Easter Sunday every person eats as many eggs as they can. The children go out and they seek a nice cosy corner to light their fire. When they have it seeked they gather sticks, and they light a fire.
    When they have it lighted they get a can of fresh water from a well nearby, and they boil it, and then they boil eggs. While the eggs are boiling, they get cups and saucers, and plates, and bread and butter and sugar, and milk.
    Then they make tea, and they pour it into cups, and
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Madge Hanratty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Virginia, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Frank Sheridan
    Gender
    Male