School: Fíodhnach (roll number 15194)
- Location:
- Fenagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Rinn
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- There is a great change at wakes to - day and wakes forty or fifty years ago. Nowadays the corpse is kept one night in the house. The men get pipes and tobacco and the women get snuff at the wakes. Next day the hearse comes to the house, and the corpse is brought to the chapel. Next morning there is a mass for the deceased, and the people and the friends attend the mass. There is a funeral that evening, from the chapel. About forty years ago the corpse used to be kept two nights in the house. It was a custom to have nine or ten gallons of whiskey at the wake. Next morning the priest said mass in the corpse's room, and the funeral was from the house. The people come to the house to pay offerings. The funeral was from the house to the graveyard. There were no hearses, the people used to carry the corpse on their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumroosk South, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Drumroosk South, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Drumroosk South, Co. Leitrim
