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 038
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“It was an old custom with the Irish people long ago...”
It was an old custom with the Irish people long ago with anyone who could afford it to supply the neighbours with whisky porter clay pipes tobacco and snuff for those remained all night to wake the corpse (father)
Another old custom was for men and women to walk after a hearse to the graveyard. If the journey was long out side the town and then any one who could afford it would take a jaunting car (father)
Another old custom was to carry the corpse-before the graveyards around the town were closed. The poor class of people never bothered about a hearse but the men relieved one another and carried the corpse to the yard on their shoulders (father)
- Collector
- Joseph Layne
- Gender
- Male