School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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- 1. At funerals long ago it was a custom to lay the coffin down at cross roads and say prayers.
2. Keeners are used to keen at wakes (keeners are women who used to cry with a mounful cry)
3. Snuff was put on paper on the breast of the corpse and each person who went in took a pinch and said a prayer for the rest of the departed soul.
4. Clay pipes and tobacco used be provided at wakes.
5. Wakes used be held and friends came to lament and comfort and often whiskey and porter were provided, wakes have now gone out of fashion and the corpse is brought to the church the night before instead and brought from the church to the grave.
6. In bringing a coffin to the church the head is brought in first and to go out the coffin must be turned so that the head goes out first.
7. When a person dies it is a custom to stop all clocks in the house.
8. When a corpse is taken from a bedroom, the(continues on next page)
