School: Cor Bealaigh
- Location:
- Corbally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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- When a person dies in a house the young folk gather in at night. These are the games they used to play:-
A crowd of men would go out, and one of them would dress himself in the shape of an ass.
Another man of them would bring him in and start selling him to the other men. One of them would start testing him to see was he well trained. Then he would start jumping and kicking until he would knock and break everything that was in the house.
Ten men would gather together in a ring in the corner of the house. Then they would shake straw on their knees. One of them would stand up in the middle. Then(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Foody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathglass, Co. Sligo
