School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Máire de Paor Dd. Allman
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- (continued from previous page)Funerals: -
If you see a hen with a sop in her claw, or with a sop hanging to her tail tis a sign of a funeral.
You should never go into a graveyard, unless you had some business in.
It is not right to count the cars in a funeral.
It is an old saying that if there are two funerals going to the same churchyard they will be racing to be first, as the last one must mind the gate until the next funeral.
A scattered funeral is a sign of another.
You should never pass out a car in a funeral.
You should never sing going to a funeral.
You should never call to see a sick person, going to or coming back from a funeral.
You should always walk three steps with a funeral if you meet it.
You should stand at your door when a funeral is passing.
Whenever you see a funeral passing you should bless yourself.
You should never go in front of the hearse in a funeral.
After leaving for a funeral you should never turn back to the house.
Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.
You should never wear anything new for the first time at a funeral.
You should always pull down the blinds when a funeral is passing in honour of the dead.
You should never count the people at a funeral.
If your boots got dirty going to a graveyard, you shouldn't rub them to the grass in the churchyard.
