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   “Long ago when a person was buried his relatives had to remain guarding the grave lest the body be dug up and sent to the surgeons.”

   

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   Long ago when a person was buried his relatives had to remain guarding the grave lest the body be dug up and sent to the surgeons. There was a watch house in every graveyard, and the watchers had guns, for the body snatchers were dangerous customers.

   

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   “The Beamishes of Kilmalooda lived in a great house near Kilmalooda graveyard.”

   

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   The Beamishes of Kilmalooda lived in a great house near Kilmalooda graveyard. They had a black butler (i.e. a negro) and a lot of servants, strangers to the locality. The people of the district kept away from the place, for some windows had been broken in the house, and no one wanted to get into trouble over it. There was a man who used to draw loads between Cork to Clonakilty. He often got a big box from Beamish's servants to deliver to a big gloomy looking house in the city. The box was always

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
   2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   William Shorten

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Shanagh, Co. Cork