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School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

Location:
Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 225

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    pipe, snuff was passed round and he had to take some of it. It was a great custom to sing at wakes long ago. The songs were sung in Irish up to one hundred years ago. Old stories were also told. When a person was buried it was a custom for the nearest relative to walk across the grave three times.
    The old people say that if the corpse is stiff, another person will die soon but if it is limber there will not be a death for some time.
    The above was told by:
    Mr B. Carney,
    Easter-snow,
    Croghan,
    Boyle
    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
    Ursula Moriarty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Boyle, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mr B. Carney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Estersnow, Co. Roscommon