School: Cruimghlinn (roll number 15967)
- Location:
- Cromghlinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0093, Page 3
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- (continued from previous page)the chapel and it is left there until the next day. Then it is brought to the graveyard and is buried. Mary Kineavy,
Ross West,
Castlebar,
I got the above information from my mother. Mrs Kate Kineavy
- When a person is dead and laid out all the furniture is cleared out of the room and a little table is placed outside the bed, and on it are five lighted candles, a plate of cut tobacco, a box of pipes, a box of snuff and few boxes of matches.All the people of the surrounding villages, come to the house where the dead person is over- board. This is called going to the corpse-house, it lasts until ten o'clock that night.When the people reach the house, they go to the bed where the dead body is laid out, and they say a few prayers of the soul. Then they take a pipe each and fill it with tobacco.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Blaine
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ros Thiar, Co. Mhaigh Eo
