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School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)

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Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Laoise Ní Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0672

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    tobacco they also bought clay-pipes for the men to smoke, the women got snuff also.
    The next day the person was brought to the chapel only if the people could afford it.
    The day after the wake they were buried, the hearse was not like those we have nowadays, it was a sort of cart with a horse drawing it.
    Singh g or music was not carried on at a young persons wake.
    It was a custom and even yet when a person is brought to the hospital never to bring them back dead to the house.
    They always bring them to the chapel and bury them from there
    It is also an old custom to take the longest road from the chapel to the
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    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
    Eibhlín Ní Fhachlain
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Patrick Keville
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Rathmullen, Co. Sligo