School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Caisleán Riabhach

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1. Local Wake and Funeral Customs (continued)

   

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   When the grave is blessed the coffin is lowered. The priest sprinkles it with holy water and throws in the bottle in which the holy water was. He throws three bits of clay on the coffin and simultaneously with the noise of the clay as it falls on the coffin is heard the crying of the relatives.
   The priest offers up some prayers and then he departs. The grave is properly closed and a decade of the rosary is offered up by some neighbour after which the general public departs.
   The relatives throw themselves on their knees at the grave and remain praying and weeping for some time. Then with tranquil and submissive heart they.
   The people are very careful when leaving a graveyard for fear they would fall because it is believed that the one who falls will be the next to be carried in, unless he tastes the clay in the graveyard.
   When people return from a funeral they take salt.

   

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Muldoon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tober, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs A. Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cornamucklagh, Co. Galway