School: Cnoc an Chuilinn, An Ráth Mhór (roll number 9871)
- Location:
- Caherbarnagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Dhuinnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0324, Page 184
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For a wake a box of clay pipes were got. They were handed round at a wake from time to time, or sometimes according as the men came in and said their prayers at the side of the bed where the corpse lay. Each man, according as he got a clay pipe, said "the Lord have mercy on his (or her) soul" or "the Lord have mercy on the dead".
When people hear a bad news they say "God bless the hearers" some add "that it mightn't happen where tis told".
When talking of animals too or gardens or cornfields people say "God bless him (or her or it). Some people even say "God bless it" to such articles of furniture as a bed. A new bed is bought "that's a fine bed God bless it". That is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Dineen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Hollymount, Co. Cork
