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School: Gráinseach, Cill Mocheallóg (roll number 9970)

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Grange, Co. Limerick
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Tomás Ó Loínsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 445

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    Wakes – Continued from page 114
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    The Rope Games = A rope was procured and actually tied around the corpse either to the body or to one or both of the hands; and sometimes to one of the legs.
    Then the rope was taken under the clothes or covered in some way, so that it would not be visible to a person entering the room and taken to some distant corner of the room where from time to time one of the “prime boys” would
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