School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Muileann an Bhata, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr M. Lorcán
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- (continued from previous page)wear the dead person's clothes for three Sundays in succession.
- About 60 years ago there was a great flood in Mullinavat, it rained for about seven days and the rain fell so heavy that as well as the rivers overflowing the water collected on the sides of the railway. The railway runs at the back of the houses and is on a height. On the seventh night the water rushed down from the railway and entered several of the houses. Peg Mackey was a poor woman that lived in one of them she had no(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Dorothy Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lukeswell, Co. Chill Chainnigh
