School: Knocknagilla

Location:
Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 398

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 398

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  3. XML “An Old Story”
  4. XML “The Age on the Coffin”

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  2. Once there was a man making a coffin and when he had the coffin half made he died. Then another man finished the coffin for the dead man. The man that was making the coffin first, when he died was twenty eight years of age.
    They had a wake over him, and the next evening they put him in the coffin and they were going to put the age on the coffin. They put the two on the coffin, and they did not know how to put the eight down. There were children in the house of the dead man, and when they came home
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