School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 10_015
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- It is right to bring the coffin out the back door when a person is dead in the house.
It is right to throw the water that washes the dead person in behind the fire.
When a person is dead in the house it is right to break a jug or some other delph in the house.
Long ago when people used die the beann sidhe used be heard crying outside that house for about a month after the persons death.
When the people are going digging the grave they should go out the back door of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gretta St George
- Gender
- Female
