School: Ballyconnell (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Mulligan
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- Some time ago it was the custom when a person was dead for to hold a wake for 2 nights and the corpse was not brought to the chapel until the day of the funeral
On Christmas Day it was the habit for the people to have a log of wood on the fire and let it burn throughout Christmass. This log was called the yuletide log.- Informant
- Joseph Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Slievebrickan, Co. Cavan