School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0542
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- (continued from previous page)13. About 60 years ago, the old people used to take the habit of the dead person off, three times.
14. The old people say that when you meet a funeral, you should turn back and walk a piece with it.
15. About eighty years ago, the old custom was to take the corpse up once out of the clay.
Nora Roche 8/1/38
From- Thomas Roche, Emone. 54.
- Pisreoga About Wakes and Funerals
1. When a person was going to a funeral it was said that he should not close but the top two holes of his shoe, or that he would not have the boot coming home.
2. Long ago it was the custom for the man of the house to sit at the right side of the door while they were bringing out the coffin, and to leave his left hand on it when it was passing him out.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Katie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Killamanagh, Co. Galway
