School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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- Customs at Wakes and Funerals
1. It is not right to open a grave on Monday.
2. It is not right for a woman to go to her eldest son’s funeral.
3. When the three men are going digging the grave they never supply there own instruments, they also go out the back door.
4. It is not right for a father or a brother of the corpse to dig the grave
5. When a person is getting married if a corpse is in the church the married couple would be unlucky.
6. It is not right to go to a wake house alone.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Martyn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr P. Martyn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Mulroog West, Co. Galway