School: Tervoe (B.) (roll number 5564)
- Location:
- Kilkeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam S. Ó Ciardha
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- (continued from previous page)large for candlestick, but dip the ends in boiling water to melt the tallow, and so enable candle to be fitted.In this district and and I have not heard of it in any other they place the coffin on the side of the road, before they enter the churchyard, and the people kneel and say a prayer. The old people tell me that this is a practice emanating from the penal days when the priest was prohibited from attending a funeral.The corpse is taken all round the churchyard, before being laid by the side of the grave.Three crossed sticks laid on coffin when it is put in grave.The spades placed in form of a cross after grave has been done.
