School: Ínse, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16540)
- Location:
- Inch West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- When my mother was a young girl she remembers her mother coming home from a wake in the townland. The wake was in the house of ODriscoll of Cílscúthanach The man of the house was dead - had died of some sort of "blast" and his wife stood o'er the corpse and "caoined" him in the following words:-
Mo ghrádh 'gus mo thaithneamh
Éirig suas id' sheasamh
Agus gabhtar dúinn an capall
Go ragfhaimíd go dtí an Ceapaigh
Mar a bheidh againn feásta fairsing
Mar abhí minic cheana-
Ní mar sin a bheidh anois
Ac "mourning" síos go talamh.
These are the words as remembered by my mother who heard her mother repeat them when she returned from that wake.
- Collector
- B. O' Connell
- Informant
- Mrs Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Dunmanway, Co. Cork
