School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 332
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- (continued from previous page)Another "piseóg" is, the you should not cry the night the corpse has been buried that is the night of the funeral.
If a corpse was to be buried on a Monday, the grave would not be opened on that day; a sod would be taken off it on Sunday which is called "reddening" the grave.
Two neighbours usually stay in the house, while the people of the house, are at the funeral.
When the corpse is coffined the bed on which the corpse was laid out is upturned.
A winding sheet in a candle and a sop of straw or hay hanging from a hen are signs of funerals.
Dogs "caoining" and cocks crowing are also signs of a death.
If a man or woman was dead, four men of the same name would go under the coffin, or failing that, four near relatives would do.
- Collector
- Úna Ní Máthúna
- Gender
- Female
