School: Scoil na mBráthar, Tuaim
- Location:
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Duinn
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- Collector
- Micheál Ó Connachtáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Another custom is a place of tobacco is left beside the dead person and there is a plate of clay pipes placed there also. Then the people smoke the pipes. On a chair near the bed is a plate of snuff and the sympathizers take a pinch of it.
- At a wake when a person dies the people stop the clock in order to respents the stopping of his heart and to tell the time he dies and be a continual reminder to the people that there is a person dead in the house.