Bridging Appalachia

NFC S 742: 305
Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath

People also make “hot cross buns” and eat them on Good Friday in memory of the carrying of the cross through Jerusalem. They put a cross on each bun.
They also mark a cross with soot on any eggs laid on Good Friday and they are kept and eaten on Easter Sunday.
Here everyone goes to make the Stations at St. Brigid’s well on that evening so that they will not have teeth aches during the year.

NFC S 791: 049
Castleknock, Co. Dublin

Good Friday:- On Good Friday people get hot cross buns from the baker. It is usual for people to go to the chapel between the hours of twelve and three and make the Stations of the Cross and also to kiss the cross. If a hen lays an egg on Good Friday it should be boiled and a cross put on it with soot each member of the family should get a portion of the egg to eat. It is a the custom to eat more eggs than usual on Easter Sunday.