School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 259
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When a funeral leaves a house the chairs and tables are immediately tuned upside down and the ends of the sheets etc. that were on the bed are dipped in water.
At a wake it is a custom to give out clay pipes filled with tobacco and there is a plate of snuff handed round for every one to take a pinch.
A person who falls in a graveyard is supposed to be buried in it before a year.
The last corpse into a graveyard has to keep watch on the gate until the next corpse comes, and then the other one has to watch.
When one person dies in a district three are supposed to die soon.
If a person meets a funeral he is supposed to go back three steps with it.
It is not right to lift the lid off a coffin to see a corpse. If this is done there will be a death in the same family before twelve months.
It is unlucky to burn withered flowers.
The bride should never leave the church first whoever comes out first dies first.
A bride must wear something old something new borrowed and something blue.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Lowe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Offaly
