School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Beithe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 290
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - One time when my Grand Uncle was a young man he was attending a "wake" in a house where an old land mark of the locality was dead. The dead man had been bed ridden for several years, and he had suffered much from rheumatism so much so, that his joints were terribly bent and crooked.
After his death, when his friends "laid him out" they did not like to see his knees sticking up in the bed as they had been during life, so they tied them to the foot of the bed. The house was small, and the body was placed in the parlour. During the "wake" the young people were dancing round the bed on which the corpse lay, when suddenly the chords which held down the legs broke, and they sprang up to their(continues on next page)
