School: Domhnach Maighin (roll number 15142)
- Location:
- Donaghmoyne, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Pádraic Ua Muirgheasa
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- (continued from previous page)the father would pay for it.
- Long ago at funerals the people used to take the dead person up to the barn and put him under a table lying in straw and a sheet over the dead person. On the top of the table they would have a white cloth a plate of pipes and a plate of tobacco. The person in charge of these would have a plate of snuff. He would hand round the snuff and every person would take a pinch of it. Then the pipes would be handed round and every man and woman would take a pipe and plate of tobacco. There would always be a barrel or half barrel of porter and some wine and whiskey and every person would get a mug. The people would sing the whole night. There would be games played, one is a bout the brogue.
The old custom when a person would die somebody would get the shovel and stick the handle of it out through the thatch. The reason(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Maron
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisgall, Co. Monaghan
