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School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)

Location:
Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 30_009

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    should be open until the person is taken out of the house.
    When a person is dead it is not right to put the correct age on the coffin, always to make younger or older than the person is.
    When a person is (putting) over-board it is not right for anyone to be in the room but the people that are putting the person over-board.
    Ther person that will put a dead person
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Kilcoyne
    Gender
    Female