School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 166
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- Long ago people had pipes, and tobacco, and snuff, at wakes. The pipes they had were called "Chalk Pipes." When the person was dead an old woman came caoining him. Caoin means to be talking about a person's qualities and making it like a song. The people put the stick, and pipe, and tobacco, into the coffin with the dead person.
- The cow sheds they had long ago were very small. They tied the the cows with chains around the horns but now they tie them them with chains around the neck. The people long ago put a Turpean in the cows-shed they said it was a sign of lusk another kind of cow-shed they was out in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary F. Prendergast
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynevin, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Prendergast
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynevin, Co. Tipperary
