Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Wake near Adamstown (continued)

   

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   leaning over the the gate leading into the yard.
   When the people of the house got up and come out and saw the corpse leaning over the gate they got a terrible fright. They thought the ould man was after getting up and walking out to the gate.

   

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2. Wake

   

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   There was a wake wan time down in Kellystown an ould women that was waking in it.
   It is the custom to say the Rosary at the stroke of twelve o'clock and after that some food would be given out.
   Well in the house, they people had a couple of chickens boiling in a big pot over the kitchen fire. While the Rosary was going on, two fellows

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Collector

   • Mary Delaney