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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Tralee (roll number 16871)

Location:
Tralee, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An tSr. Bríd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0439, Page 120

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    Many a person in Tralee would not go to bed without shaming and sweeping the house, making a good fire, putting food on the table in a vessel of water. Those persons believe that people from the other world came into the house at dead of night.
    If there is a person to be buried on Monday the top sod is taken off on Sunday. That is an old custom the people would not break for gold or silver. Usually four relatives of the dead person take the coffin on their shoulders from teh church to the herse and from that into the graveyard. The coffin is taken from the wake house to the chapel the shortest way but it is taken the longest road from the church to the graveyard.
    When a person is being waked five candles are lighted and put on a little table near the bed on which the corpse is. Four candles are lighting and the fifth is put lying on the table.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    M. O Carroll
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Killierisk, Co. Kerry