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School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)

Location:
Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 415

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 415

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    “When a person dies the clock is stopped immediately and is not allowed to work again until after the funeral.”

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    Owing to church laws intoxicating drink has almost disappeared from corpse houses, and for the same reason wakes have got much smaller than they were about the end of the nineteenth century and tricks at wakes have ceased entirely.
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    “A captain of yeomen was killed ...”

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    A captain of yeomen was killed about the time of the battle of Ballinamuck in the townland for Drumconney, in a field at present in the possession of Mrs McIntyre.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. games
            1. wake games (~170)
        2. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. 1798 (~642)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    M. Cobreavy
    Gender
    Male