School: Leithead (roll number 5480)

Location:
Lehid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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  1. It is the custom that when a person dies a friend or relation of the dead person will wear the clothes for three Sundays in order that the person that dies will have them in the next world. On saturday evening after the person is buried at sunset the woman of the house puts out the clothes on the back of a chair. The person that is going to wear them will come, and call the person that is dead and say, "Come here
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs P. Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    49
    Address
    Lehid, Co. Kerry