School: Fieldstown, Drogheda (roll number 14462)
- Location:
- Fieldstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 253
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- Other old customs that were practised at wakes were. They used to have wakes in barns. This was done so that a crowd of people would come to sing and dance and play all sorts of games. In those days biers were used instead of hearses and the dead person was wrapped up in a sheet or a shroud. Long ago old women used to caoin outside the barns and they were called the ban-shide. Sometimes they used to come inside and caoin around the beds. When the corpse were leaving the house the stools were turned up-side down. Some wake their dead on a bundle of straw.
- Collector
- Jackie Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Newtown Monasterboice, Co. Louth
