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School: Baile na Manach (roll number 11488)

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Monkstown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Labhrás Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 219

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  1. A Legend of a Coffin

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    About one hundred years ago there lived near Raffeen Bridge Co. Cork a farm labourer who was very poor. In those days there were no insurances as there are today. In the mean-time one of the family died.
    They got a coffin in which to bury him from the workhouse When the people of the district heard this they were very much grieved. They went from house to house collecting money to buy a decent coffin for him. The coffin that they got from the workhouse was left there as the people of the district thought it an unlucky omen to interfere with it.
    The old house in which this incident occurred is still to be seen and the remains of the coffin was to be seen up to thirty years ago.
    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)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sean Punch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Monkstown, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Maurice Punch
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Monkstown, Co. Cork