School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 06_004
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- Long ago the wakes and funerals were far more different to what the are now. The Wakes used to last for two nights and there used to be crying, singing, and drinking at the wakes also.
1. It is not right to throw out the dust of the house while the corpse is in the house.
2. There is a cure for boils in the four corners of the sheet which goes round the corpse.
3. It is not right to dig a grave on Monday.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Mannion
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Tierney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Killeenmunterlane South, Co. Galway
