School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567D, Page 01_067
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- At Wakes
Long ago it was a custom at wakes to have plenty of drink and to have a big plate of snuff in the middle of the table. The person of the house who used to get a lot of smoking pipes and fill each one with tobbaco and hand one to each man.Cloaks
The old women used to wear black cloaks with hoods on them and the hoods used to be trimmed with white. Sometimes they wore white bonnets with little lace curls around them. They had special irons for making(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ruby Millett
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Morrissey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
