School: Sean-cheann tSáile (roll number 9649)

Location:
Old Head, Co. Cork
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 257

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 257

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  1. It is said that -
    1. If a corpse is buried in any graveyard two others will quickly follow.
    2. Funerals follow the same road from home to churchyard that the funerals of ancestors followed.
    3. It is usual to wake corpses one night in home and on second day it is removed to church.

    4. The funeral from church must not again pass house where deceased lived.
    5. It is thought unlucky to throw out the ashes when a person is dead in the house.
    6. It is considered unlucky to pick up money in a graveyard or clean your shoes in a graveyard.
    7. It is the custom to remove the sod or portion of the sod the night before the burial but it is thought unlucky to do so on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
    8. It is the custom to provide snuff for the people attending the wake so that they may pray for the soul of the deceased.
    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
    Mary Manning
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Kilcolman, Co. Cork