School: An Dúinín (roll number 4444)
- Location:
- Dooneen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Motharua
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 137
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“There was a minister living in Skibbereen. His wife got a fit of convulsions. Four doctors came to the woman and said she was dead.”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- In the olden days a good many years ago there was a custom of stealing the dead bodies of people freshly buried in the graveyards. A man from this part of the country was buried in Castlehaven and that same night the dead body was taken up by a party of men. One of the men was formerly from the neighbourhood and when he called to see his people at home twelve months later, he found his brother had been buried twelve months and he helped to steal the body from the grave.