School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- An Creagán Bán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 06_008
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- (continued from previous page)they leave him in on the bed.
On that day they go for the coffin and for the tobacco and they leave the person in the house for that night and the next evening they leave him in the church if the church is near. The next morning they go to the church and the priest offers up a mass for the dead person. The four people who put the person over board that is the four people that will take the person into graveyard.
It is said that if a hen comes out off the barn and (with) a wisp sticking out of her it is a sign that some person will die.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Egan
- Gender
- Female
