School: Raskall
- Location:
- Raskill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Mhaoláin
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- (continued from previous page)walking after it. When they get to the chapel the Rosary is recited. The neighbours are all brought home for refreshment, next day at two oclock the funeral is and everyone pays an offering of two shillings or half-a-crown. The offerings are counted and the coffin is carried out and buried. The priest says prayers and the grave is closed and the relatives return home sorrowfully.
- I often heard the old people telling around the fireside on the long winter nights. There was once a a small poor farmer in Killenkere the name of "Radreen" who dreamed three nights after other that if he went to Dublin Bridge for three succeeding monings he would get his fortune. He went to the bridge the first morning and walked about on the bridge. After a while a work man came along going to his work. He walked by and bid him the time of day. The following morning the man came back to the bridge and the workman passed by and said "Good Morning". So finally the third morning he walked about on the bridge and the workman came and he asked him "What has you a stranger here so early every morning" "Well I will tell you. I dreamth that I'd get my fortune here on this bridge", "O God bless you" I dreamth(continues on next page)
