School: Caisleán Gearr
- Location:
- An Caisleán Gearr, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Maolmhuidhe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0030, Page 040
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán Gearr
- XML Page 040
- XML “Wakes of My Parish”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)people. The young men who were present took part in them. They were played in the kitchen and began at midnight and were continued until the wake was over in the morning.
Of all the games that were played at wakes in those days Hurra-harra was the most popular. The young men sat round in a circle on the kitchen floor. One sat in the middle of the circle. Those in the circle had a sugan with a knot on the top. They passed this around quickly under their knees from one to another and each was looking for an opportunity to give a blow of it to the man in the centre. If, however, the man in the centre succeeded in catching the sugan then the person who held the other ent of it had to take his place in the centre of the circle.
Two men stood facing each other on the kitchen floor. Each held both the other’s hands. Several other pairs of men(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Caisleán Gearr, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Hanraoi Ó Griallghais
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Castlegar, Co. Galway
