School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)
- Location:
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Ruairc
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- (continued from previous page)tobacco they also bought clay-pipes for the men to smoke, the women got snuff also.The next day the person was brought to the chapel only if the people could afford it.The day after the wake they were buried, the hearse was not like those we have nowadays, it was a sort of cart with a horse drawing it.Singh g or music was not carried on at a young persons wake.It was a custom and even yet when a person is brought to the hospital never to bring them back dead to the house.They always bring them to the chapel and bury them from thereIt is also an old custom to take the longest road from the chapel to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Fhachlain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick Keville
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo