School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh
- Location:
- Doonaha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ed J. Headtromóin
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- (continued from previous page)Moyarta (Carrigaholt) Part of this is closed owing to the burial of cholera victims in 1847,48.
The foundations of an old church are here.
Southern Slope
Another graveyard behind this for unbaptised children.
- Large Graveyard in Kilferagh.
Remains of the old parish church.All graves face towards the east.
1. If you meet a funeral on the road you should turn about and accompany it for a little way.
2. Unlucky to count the number of cars or horsemen in a funeral.
3. The people of one family in Doonaha eat meat if there is a death in their house or if they are going to a wake lest the fairies should bring them off.
(Batt. Scanlan)
4. Blessed earth put into coffin with corpse.
5. If you go on a funeral you should not on your way home call in at a neighbours’ house to buy or sell or transact business. This is unlucky for the neighbour.
6. If a Christmas Candle should gutter and drop a long streamer of wax down its side, this is a sign of a death in the house.(continues on next page)
