School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- 1. When a person is dead the people of the house leave three chairs outside the door and leave the coffin on the top of them unclosed so that the friends would cry over it.
2. It is not right to be fighting for possession of a grave.
3. Long ago when people were coming from a funeral they used to be singing and dancing.
4. It is not right to close the blind on the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridget Connill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thady Searry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Tooreen, Co. Galway