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School: Loughglinn (C.)

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Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 409

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    are turned upside down, so that the devil, should he enter, will have no seat on which to sit.
    Another strange custom is that of engaging the oldest people in the district to mourn and wail aloud over a dead person. This is called "keening" the dead (from the Irish word "caoinead" lamenting) and is carried on even today in many districts including our own, thus bearing out the truth of the old Irish Sean-fhocal "Ni lia tír ná nós.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Twohey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Twohey
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughglinn, Co. Roscommon