Scoil: Kenmare (B.) (uimhir rolla 2849)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “While my mother lived, she always kept winding sheets for the dead...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   was face under.
   I still have the sheets in that trunk there. They are over 100 years old now. They were home made.

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   When a corpse is being laid out everything used in the preparing - soap, rack etc is thrown out with the water.

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   A neighbouring woman was sick and I went too see her and she said to me - "Bridgie, when I die will you lay me out?" I said I would. She died and another neighbour and I went to the house. All the dogs of the place were crying that evening. When we had the corpse washed the woman that took the water came in & said that the yard was full of strange dogs. The woman was a good honest woman. I suppose the dogs were from the other world.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Mc Carthy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   81

   Seoladh

   Carhoomeengar West, Co. Kerry