School: Multyfarnham (roll number 2405)
- Location:
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tiomáin
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- (continued from previous page)smart blow of the belt on the back and so the game went on. The player with whom the belt was eventually found then took the center of the circle.
4. I have heard the old people say that wrestling was a common game at wakes long ago.
5. In my young days singing used to be carried on at wakes. If anyperson refused to make an effort to sing, whethwer he was a singer or not, he received a saucepanof water down his back.
6. The young people went to the wakes at night, the elderly people to the 'corpse-house' (pronounced corp-house) in the day.('Corp' is the Irish for corpse)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Timon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mary Timon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Tibohine, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Michael Timon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Tibohine, Co. Roscommon
