School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)

Location:
Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 204

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  1. When a person dies - the nearest friends go to town, order a coffin and bring to the house wake and funeral necessaries.
    They send accounts of the death to all their friends. They generally bring a couple of barrels of porter, whiskey, wine, white-bread, tea and sugar, and a couple of currant loaves. According as the friends come - they are well treated with whiskey and porter and as the friends come to the house they generally begin to Caoin which means crying. In olden times crying or Caoining was all the topic at a wake. At that time when a person died the first six or seven of the funeral Caoiners Caoined in their turns as loud as they could until they arrived at the Church-yard.
    "Is ding de'n líomhán is fearr a sgoileann í féin"
    Mr John Fitzgerald, Tulliguabbeen, Castleisland
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Tullagubbeen, Co. Kerry