School: Móin na nGé (C.), An Caisleán Nua (roll number 9402)

Location:
Rahanagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Eachtigheirn
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  1. Not very long ago when a person died "keeners" attended at the wake, and they cried aloud in a sort of singing voice and recounted the good deeds of the dead person. As a rule there used to be twenty one keeners at a funeral and they followed the hearse in threes "keening". A Mrs. Brown in this locality was a noted keener, and so was a Mrs Flanagan from Strand. The last persons "keened" for in this parish were William Mac Enery of Camas and John O Connor of Glenquin and Michael Green of Rathcahill who died about forty years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Conway
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathcahill East, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Conway
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 89
    Address
    Lissurland, Co. Limerick