School: Killyraine (roll number 4181)
- Location:
- Killyrean Upper, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Coilleadh
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- (continued from previous page)slaves. When the Irish people died they were buried in wooden coffins and the coffins were painted black. In other places there was a door put on the bottom of the coffin and there was a white sheet tied round the dead body in it. When the people brought the coffin to the grave there was a deep hole dug and the door of the coffin was opened and the dead person was thrown into the hole and the coffin was brought back for more people.
