School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loch an Tóraic Theas, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0274
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- (continued from previous page)shoulders it might be ten miles long or farther. Some good crier belonging to the person that was dead would sit on the coffin and crie them to the graveyard. They hold the corp two days and two nights in the house and the old women would sit down crying in there turn beside the corp. They would make a big bone fire St Johns night twenty third of June every year
- Collector
- Martin Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loch an Tóraic Thuaidh, Co. na Gaillimhe
