School: Gráinseach, Cill Mocheallóg (roll number 9970)

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Grange, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Loínsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 445

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0516, Page 445

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    at the place where the Lost Stream from Lough Gur disappears under Carraigín Hill (as described in page 79).
    She used to buy the eels for 6D to 8D a dozen and sell them for more twice that price.
    Mary Clancy (Farmer)
    Lower Grange,
    Kilmallock.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Wakes – Continued from page 114
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    The Rope Games = A rope was procured and actually tied around the corpse either to the body or to one or both of the hands; and sometimes to one of the legs.
    Then the rope was taken under the clothes or covered in some way, so that it would not be visible to a person entering the room and taken to some distant corner of the room where from time to time one of the “prime boys” would
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. games
            1. wake games (~170)
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