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School: Corrovally, Achadh Dúin, An Sciobairín (roll number 13961)

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Eileen Reid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0294, Page 242

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    Else is treated with tea and cake.
    Another custom is to give a band of crepe to all the relations and friends of the dead. These are tied loosely round their hats.
    All their clergymen who attend the funeral as well as the drivers of the hearse wear a very large band of pure white line across the right shoulder and tied under the left arm at the waist.
    These pieces of linen are new and bought specially for each funeral and are never used at a funeral again, but are afterwards given away, usually in charity.
    Sammy Sweetman
    Morahin,
    Aughadown
    Skibbereen,
    Co. Cork.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sammy Sweetnam
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Murrahin, Co. Cork