School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 16_009
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- The customs at funerals and wakes
In the olden times at wakes they used to pay a woman to cry they used to call her bean chaointe. She used to cry from the Chapel to the grave yard. They used have whiskey and porter and pipes and tobacco at the wakes.
At the funerals some people would not allow the coffin to be put into the hearse and the young men of the parish would carry it on their sholders. Then the crying would be kept up, they would carry the coffin into the grave yard. Four of the same name would carry the coffin into the grave yard
- Collector
- Michael Mc Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
