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School: Muine an Mheadha

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Monivea, Co. Galway
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Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 057

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    Long ago when a person would die on the side of the road and when the funeral would be passing by everyone used to be at the funeral used to throw a stone on the spot where the person died.
    Another custom was when a father or a mother of a family used to die and if the children were young they used to make the children cross the grave three times so they would forget them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Ballyskeagh, Co. Galway