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School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)

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Muingwore, Co. Sligo
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Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 279

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    Long ago when there were no motorcars or bicycles in the country, the people travelled on foot and the wealthier people rode on horseback.
    At funerals instead of a hearse the people in this locality had a cart in which to carry the coffin. The people who had carts went in them to the graveyard. Those who had no carts rode on horseback.
    During the famine years when so many were dying and the people were too poor to buy coffins or habits, they rolled the corpse up in a sheet and laid it to rest in a grave.
    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
    Nora Donegan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    10
    Address
    Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs P. Donegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo