School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 126
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- (continued from previous page)The women and girls frequently carried a girl or woman corpse.
A hearse supplied for young and unmarried person had white bobbins on the horses' heads. Married and elderly people had black bobbins on the horses' heads.
The priest recited the last prayers at the graveyard and he also put the first clay on the coffin.
- 58. Wake Games.
Forfeits were played at a wake long ago. In order to recover articles forfeited the person had to perform rediculous things.
