School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 248
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- (continued from previous page)back he would be walking the head was forward.
- In olden times people had very queer ways. When a death occurred in a family, the cousins from each side, tried to throw the next death on each other. If a Brian man was married to a Ryan woman, if one of their children died, the Ryans would watch the minute the corpse was put in the coffin to turn the table in order that a Brien would die next.
Rita Power age 13 years
Told to me by John Power age 80 years When a person dies in this district the clock is stopped and is not allowed to keep time until the person is coffined. - Collector
- Rita Power
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- John Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
