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 020
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- 1. At a death when a person dies the women of the house send for a woman who they know is very good for laying out a corpse. (mother)
2. First she would put up all white cloth around the room she would be laying the person (father)
3. Then she would send down for a brown habit and send it up to the church to get it blessed. she would put it on the corpse and put the corpse in a coffin (father)
4. The corpse would be waked for two days Every person who would come into the room would have to kneel down and say a few prayers before leaving the (mother)
5. When the two days are up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lacey
- Gender
- Male
