School: Gort na Díogha (roll number 15587)
- Location:
- Gortnadeeve West, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Ó Dochartaigh Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 049
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- why people close doors when funerals pass- long ago it was the custom to carry the corpse from house to house when the occupants of the later would carry it to the next house and so on. People were so weakened out from hunger as that they felt they were not able and so closed doors to prevent people from asking their help.
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- Informant
- Thomas Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 91
- Address
- Knockmascahill, Co. Galway
