School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)
- Location:
- Muileann na Cille, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)A day and a night at home and is brought to the Chapel for the second night and Buried next day.
Rich people Have a High mass and office.
The relations wear black for some time after - for parents or children black is worn for a year, for grandparents, uncles and aunts and cousins Some people wear black for six months and some just wear a black hat or a black tie or band.
- When a child is very quiet and hardly ever cries It is a sign that it will not live.
When you hear the dog keening it is a sign that someone is dying.
If a sick person is all the time picking the blankets on the bed It is a sign that they are dying.
If a person who dies does not get stiff there will soon be another death in the family.
When a person is waking in a house the people stop the clock because they say the corpse would not rest if they did not stop it.
There is usually a plate of snuff And plenty of clay pipes left on the quilt over the corpse(continues on next page) - Collector
- Johanna Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Collector
- Stasia Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- John Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
