School: Inch, Borris
- Location:
- Clanagh, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Michael J. O'Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 672
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- (continued from previous page)They were called keeners. Those keeners were discontinued about eighty years ago.
In the olden times pipes and snuff and whiskey was given at every wake. The whiskey is still given at wakes to the men. Then the funeral takes place after two days. On the morning of the funeral the friends of the person are crying.
- Boy who Sleeps in Haunted house and is given a hidden treasure.Long ago there was a boy going on a long journey. He was benighted and as he was passing a house he saw a light in it and he went in. When he went in there was nobodys in the house.In this house there was a pot of gold hidden and a man was shot then and every night he came to the house so the so the pople that lived in it had to leave it.The night the boy was in the house he came and he looked at the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowlin, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Owen Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowlin, Co. Carlow
