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School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)

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Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567D, Page 01_153

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    When any person is dead the people get a sheet and tack it on to the corner of the room on which the corpse is laid and they get laurel leaves and tack them on to the sheet in the shape of a cross.
    Sometimes the people when the corpse is laid
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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
    Maura Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Female