School: Tankerstown (roll number 15304)
- Location:
- Tankerstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Thom. F. Meagher
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“Long ago it was the custom when people died to wake them for two days and have a funeral the third day.”
Long ago it was the custom when people died, to wake them for two days and have a funeral the third day.
When the men came to the wake, they got some stout or whiskey. On the dresser there was a cut of tobacco and a lot of clay pipes, each man took a pipe and some tobacco.
It was also the custom to pay money to women to dress in white and go around crying for the dead.
These women were called "Keeners"
People say that this crying is still heard after certain families have died.
- Collector
- Alice Maxey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappauniac, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Matt Murnane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cappauniac, Co. Tipperary