School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (roll number 10731)
- Location:
- Knockcarron, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Dúthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 443
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- (continued from previous page)be a small grey person with very long tresses, and she was always engaged in combing out her tresses. It was a common belief, that if a person succeeded in capturing this comb, he never again would see a poor day. Then again, "American wakes", or "live-wakes" took place the night before an Irish emigrant sailed for America. These wakes were gay affairs - singing, dancing and carousal. But on the following morning at the local railway-station, the keening could be heard for miles around.
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- Informant
- Thomas Duhig
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Emly, Co. Tipperary
