School: Airgneach Uachtarach (roll number 7348)
- Location:
- An Gleann, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ruairc
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- (continued from previous page)brought him in and gave him two glasses of whiskey.The second woman said to her husband; "Go to bed and pretend you are dead and the people will come in to the corpse house." The funeral took place next day.
When the funeral was leaving the third woman said to her husband "Your brother is being buried to day and of course you are one of the chief mourners. I will get you ready. Take off your clothes and I will paint you with tar and I will give you a black thorn stick in your hand." She sent him off after the funeral. When the people saw him coming, they threw down the coffin that they were carrying on their shoulders, and they ran away left and right afraid of the man that was coming. They thought it was the devil. The man in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommy Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Gleann, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Gleann, Co. Shligigh
