School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)die his wife would sit on the coffin going to the chapel. Long ago people wouldn't be confirmed until they would be about seventy years of age. In olden days when people would die they would be laid out on the kitchen table. The would be waked in their own house for two nights. During this time the people would collect all the good criers and they would over the corpse. two or three times before the corpse would be buried.
- They used to stick maypole and shake holy water on the crops May eve. In times gone by in backward places there were no roads they would have to carry the coffins on their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughatorick North, Co. Galway
