School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)
- Location:
- Cnoc Mhuire, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)cut a square cake of soil and put the candles standing on it. It was a superstition that whose ever candle quenched first they died first.
- The people got rushes and peeled half the skin off the rushes and left the bark on to keep it strong Then they dipped them in grease.
- Collector
- Thomas Phillips
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Phillips
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Cluain Tornáin, Co. Mhaigh Eo