School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 03_007
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- (continued from previous page)6. When the people are going to dig the grave three should go and they should go out the back door also.
7. It is right to quench the fire when a person dies but it can be lit again in about ten minutes.
8. The door of the room where a person died should be closed for about two hours.
9. The coffin used to be taken to the grave in a common cart and three old women used to sit on it caoning the dead.
10. It is right to close the kitchen door after a coffin going out.
- Collector
- Kitty Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- An Cartrún, Co. na Gaillimhe
