School: Creagach
- Location:
- Craggagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán T. Ruane
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0118, Page 58
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- Many old customs still survive in this school near Clanhard
Death
When a person is dying he or she is taken from the bed in which they were ill and laid out to die on a straw mattress. The clock in the house in which a death takes place and is not set in motion again until the funeral is over. Pipes (clay) and tobbacco are provided for such males as come to the wake also a plate of snuff is passed round at different times during the wake.
As the dying person is breathing his last gasps, the habit, or death shroud is put on.
When the grave is covered the surviving members of the family to which deceased belonged walk across the covered grave three times.
"Caoining" from home of deceased to cemetary during funeral procession no longer is heard.
- Collector
- Desmond Ruane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balla, Co. Mayo
