School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- (continued from previous page)straw ropes covering the ceiling over the corpse. After returning from the funeral it is right to take three grains of salt and throw three more into the fire. Long ago there used to be singing at wakes and it very often disturbed the corpse. If the clothes of the bed where the dead person was laid was not washed the day after the burial it was right to dip one corner of the sheet in water or the soul would not rest. A mare in foal should not carry the corpse unless she would be turned three times under the car. It is said that a person who dies to-day will be minding the gates of the grave-yard until another person dies.
About forty years ago when a person would die the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugalisheen South, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Hynes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 52
- Address
- Lugalisheen South, Co. Mayo
