School: Ráth Morgáin (roll number 15966)
- Location:
- Ráth Muireagáin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0130, Page 399
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- (continued from previous page)danger of death they send for the priest. When a person is dying the people say the rosary. When the person is dead the people take the clothes off the bed and they leave the person there until he is shaved or washed. Long ago when wild fellows used be at wakes one one of them used go back under the bed and rise up the bed and the people used to think that the person was not dead. They put the person then over-board. Every one that is at the wake gets tea and the big people get a pipe and it filled with tobacco. They keep the person in two nights. When the person is put in the coffin the same women that washed him will fix(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Mac Aindriú
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortmore, Co. Mayo
