School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)
- Location:
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)it also into the coffin.
6. A pregnant woman should not go into the room where the corpse was being put in the coffin.
7. If a pregnant woman met a funeral and did not turn back with it her child would be born with crooked feet.
- Christmas Customs.
Candles are put in every window in the house on Christmas eve. On Christmas night - on New Year's Eve + the Twelfth Night.
In olden days - Mrs FInnegan (aged 78) Cloncunny, says that to hold the twelve candles on the Twelfth Eve a sort of dough was made from the ashes + stable manure. The rosary was said 15 decades while the candles burned - Afterwards the dough was carefully divided up into portions - a part being put behind(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
