School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- 1. Snuff was left on the breast of the dead person so that each person who might take some would say "Lord have mercy on his soul".
2. When people die a person opens the window so that the soul may go to its maker.
3. Long ago when a person died it was the costome to stop the clock immediately.
4. A scattered funeral so the sign that another one will soon follow.
5. To dream of a priest means that somebody in the house will die.
6. If you met a funeral it(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway