School: Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla (roll number 11249)
- Location:
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Óda (Archdeacon)
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- When person dies in house the mirror or looking glass should be covered, so that ghost of dead person would not be seen.The water left after washing of corpse should be left under bed until after funeral.Bodies of suicides and of unbaptised children are buried behind churchyard.The clock should also be stopped in house.
- Collector
- Donal Archdeacon
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Drommahane, Co. Cork