School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)

Location:
Colehill, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Kathleen Morris
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    Kathleen Nillen aged 11 and a half yrs I got this information from Mr Bouce aged 17 who resides at Carrickedmond
    Colehill
    Mullingar
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. When a person is about to die he wants to be moved in the bed and he is always handling the bed clothes, also his eyes are fixed on something in the bedroom which attracts him very much long ago when a person was about to die the people had special hours for death They would say if he got bad and near death and if he passed half past twelve at night, they would say he would live until half past five in the morning
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Skelly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Informant
    Peter Gill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Colehill, Co. Longford