School: Castlejordan (roll number 15974)
- Location:
- Castlejordan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: M. Nic Amhlaoidh
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- (continued from previous page)died in hospital and her husband asked the priest to let him wake her in the chapel as he was very poor. The priest consented and so she was taken to the chapel and ever since every corpse is taken to the chapel after one night in the house. Gur Flitche, Gur Flatche
A few people got together and formed a ring. Then one of them got a hay rope and hid it under his legs. They all sat down on their hunkers and one got in the middle and the person with the rope gave him a blow of it and then passed it on to the next. If the person in the ring caught the one with the rope he was to get in and the one that was in the ring first got the rope and gave him a blow of it and while he was hitting he would shout Gur Flitche, Gur Flatche huroor. Lizzie Coyne,Kildangan. From my father THomas Coyne, Farmer 1938, Kildangan, Kinnegad, Co. Meath.
- Collector
- Lizzie Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildangan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Thomas Coyne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kildangan, Co. Meath
