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School: Ballyseedy (roll number 9048/55)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 105

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    and whiskey were passed around as well as pipes and tobacco and snuff. Story- telling, tracing up relations , and very often match-making are caried on during the night of the wake. In the morning they get ready for the funeral. Not a button or a fastening should be left unopened. At every cross road they came to, they left the coffin down and started caoining. The corpse was usually buried with the feet towards the west.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Nóra Ní Shuilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Garrane, Co. Kerry