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School: Dún Beag (C.)

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Doonbeg, Co. Clare
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Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 360

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    About a hundred years ago it was a great custom to get a crate of clay pipes and get about 10/= worth of tobacco and every man and woman that would come in would have to take a pipe and light it and while lighting they should say "The Lord have mercy on the dead". The corpse used never be laid out in the room.The table in the kitchen used to be pulled out and the corpse would be left up on it with two white linen sheets over it. When the rosary would be over the near relatives such as their grandmothers if they were alive their grandaunts and others would be around the corpse crying and clapping hands and lamenting for about half an hour. They used keep the corpse in the
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Treasa Ní Shúilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mayne Ryan
    Gender
    Female