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School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0272

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    well dried over the fire and served for candles.
    If any visitor was coming to a house they were some peeled rushed provided and those being dipped in melted fat afforded light to the stranger while he or she were taking their supper of perhaps potatoes and milk or what was commonly used herrings.
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    Long ago the used to pull a branch of the maypole and stick it in the corner of every field they would be afraid it would be stolen. It was an old custom to throw a plate of pepper on the dead persons face. When a person would die they people of the house would give clay pipes to all who would be at the wake. When a man would
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    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Comar
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mick Hackett
    Gender
    Male