School: Tobar Ruadh
- Location:
- Toberroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0208
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- Wakes and Funerals.
After a person dies in a house, there is usually a wake on that night and when they are going to be buried there is a funeral.
Long ago about fifty years ago there used to be wakes and funerals also but they were a little different from those at the present time. Long ago they used to keep the dead in the houses nearly three days and three nights before they would bury them and they used to have a lot of drink on that night. Sometimes they used to have a quarter cask of porter so it was cheap at that time. They just keep the dead in about a day and a night now.
They had a lot of customs on the night of the wake. All the men would have clay pipes to smoke on that night and a person used to go around with cut tobacco on a plate and they used to give it to those who had not clay pipes to chew it and they used to give them snuff out of a little box and you would not hear anything on that night but everybody sneezing. They used to put the corpse in a cart on the day of the funeral as they had not money to have a motorcar and two or three of the family would sit up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Naughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlyon, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Cloonlyon, Co. Galway
