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School: Baile a' Mhuilinn (Cailíní)

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    7. The chairs would be turned down and washed before they would be brought in.
    8. If a person would fall in a grave-yard it is said that he would die before a year.
    9. Long ago four of the friends would carry the coffin to the grave-yard.
    10. It is said that if snow fell on a coffin that the dead person would go to heaven.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymary, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Julia Egan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Ballymary, Co. Galway