School: Gort na Cloiche (Rockfield) (roll number 14025/6)
- Location:
- Gort na Cloiche Meánach, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Donnchadh Ó h-Éaluighthe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0458, Page 090
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- It is customary in Ireland that before a corpse is coffined that all fastenings such as pins and knots are removed. If this was not done it might be inconvenient for the person in after life. It happened that an old man was buried and his socks were tied together as they forgot to untie them. A week after when his wife looked out the window she saw him jumping outside with his toes tied together. She had to get the assistance of some neighbours to go to the grave with her and they found that the pins in his socks had never been removed.
