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 11_007
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- (continued from previous page)18. If there are two roads one longer than the other, it is customary to go the long road.
19. They proceed slowly as it is considered, a shame to hurry with a funeral.
20. Rain for a funeral is lucky “happy for the corpse that the rain falls on”
21. Lay people are buried facing the East and priests facing the West.
22. When a person dies out of doors the corpse is not brought into a dwelling house. It is waked in a barn.
23. Badóirí thinks it unlucky to save a drowning person. They say some misfortune will overtake them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Martyn
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr P. Martyn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Maolrúg Thiar, Co. na Gaillimhe
