School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 11_005
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- (continued from previous page)7. It is not right to leave a wake-house until day break if you are in it during the night
8. It is not right to go in to a neighbours house going or coming from a funeral.
9. The people who carry’s the coffin from the house to the hearse must carry the coffin from the hearse to the grave.
10. It is not right for the parents to go to the funeral of their first child.
11. When a person has toothache if he puts his finger up into a dead mans mouth and then puts the finger in-to his own mouth the toothache is cured
12. When you meet a funeral you should turn back seven steps after it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Martyn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr P. Martyn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Maolrúg Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
