School: Ráth Bhán (roll number 15996)
- Location:
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ss Ó Donnchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 018
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ráth Bhán
- XML Page 018
- XML “Local Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)when any people die. They were kept in their homes two nights before they were brought to the Church. Each night a large crowd gathered into the corpsehouse. The old women went into the corpsehouse earlier than the younger people.At that time the old women would start crying shortly after they entered the corpse house. There were usually two or three old women to conduct the crying.When the young girls came to the corpsehouse they helped in crying with the old women.At the "wakes" the people got chalk pipes and tobacco.There is stil and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Norah Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Mayo
