School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 633
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Long ago it was the custom after mass in the chapels for about fifteen men to come in and chant and these were called Office Men. Each man had a book called an Office Book and they used chant the Office out of it. It was carried on in the same way as the high masses are carried on now-a-days. Every chanter had to get the office chanted in his house every year. They used to put a table on the middle of the floor and put four candles and a crucifix on it. Then they used kneel around the table and read the office in turn. At the end of the office they used read the Litany in Latin. When a person would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Ham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Toorbeg, Co. Westmeath
