School: St. Brigid's (B.) (roll number 12925)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M. Gúld
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 019
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- 1. Long ago the people when they would die would get buried from their own house. (Mother)
2. They would get waked for two nights (Father)
3. When a person dies the window in the room he or she dies in is always opened. (Aunt).
4. It is said that a priest was buried in a churchyard and that some one took flowers off his grave and he came to the persons house and put him out on the window that night. (mother)
5. It is a custom that when the coffin is in the grave the relations throw a handfull of sand on its grave. It is called buring the dead. (Mother).
- Collector
- James Cullen
- Gender
- Male
