School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)
- Location:
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ss Ó Donnchadha
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- (continued from previous page)old custom held: when the corpse is leaving the house the people turn down the forms and chairs.
There was once an old woman living in a house.
Her husband had just died and some people were in the corpsehouse.
There were a good many young boys in the house
At the bottom of the house there were a few bags of turnips.
The lads stole some of the turnips and began eating them.
The woman of the house thought the dead man's knees were(continues on next page)- Collector
- Norah Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo