School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- (continued from previous page)and tobacco, and clay pipes. The snuff was given to the women, and the clay pipes and tobacco to the men.
In the olden times some of the people died on the chair, and were crippled when they were laid out. To prevent the body from being crippled it was tied to the table with ropes. Some of the boys who knew that cut the ropes, so that the corspe crippled up again. The people thought it was coming to life again and ran away. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Peggy Crotty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Flannagan
- Gender
- Male