Scoil: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (uimhir rolla 15665)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Customs at Deaths and Funerals (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   The corpse is washed shaved and "laid out" by the neighbours. The corpse is now brought to the chapel on the day before the funeral but some years ago there was a two nights wake. Clay pipes and tobacco are provided for the men and snuff for the women and the young people generally remain up the whole night until day break. Long ago they used to spend the night playing tricks but this is not now the custom. On the day of the funeral the corpse is taken out feet foremost and placed on two chairs on the street. It is then lifted and put into the hearse. The two chairs are then knocked together. This custom is always followed. If a person dies upstairs, the corpse is always taken out through a top window and never down the stairs. Just before a person dies the tick (a feather tick or mattress) should be taken from under them and they should be let die on the under mattress e.g a person should never be let die on a feather tick. Some say it takes them longer to die if they are left lying on it.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí sóisialta (~7)
         1. deasghnátha aistrithe saoil (~573)
            1. bás (~1,076)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Inscne

   Fireann