School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 246
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- Although now that "dead people" are waked in "beds", the old belief about turning the tables still survives in parts.
A few years ago, a girl from this place was married near Tralee, and when a child of hers, who died, was being taken from the bed and put in the coffin, the "mother-in-law" rushed to turn the matress or "tick" as it was called. But the childs mother sat or stretched herself on the tick and would not allow the mother-in-law turn the tick , until the coffin had left the house.
- Informant
- Margaret Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Farranmanagh, Co. Kerry
