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School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)

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Ballindine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire de Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 618

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    should wash the clothes and the person who washed the clothes should not iron them. They should be ironed half dry. If the wind is with the corpse it is lucky. If a person has a brood mare when the man of the house dies it is right to sell her.
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  2. Deaths IV

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    If any bacon was hanging from the ceiling it would be taken down.
    Clay pipes filled with tobacco would be handed round to every man at the wake and also glasses of whiskey. A plate of snuff was also left near the corpse or on it and everyone that would come
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eithne Griffith
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 66
    Address
    Lugalisheen South, Co. Mayo