School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)

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   “Nuair atá comhartha báistí ann . . .”

   

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   Deireann muinntir na h-áite seo má chíonn siad réalt ag tuitim go bhfuil ainm imthighthe go Neamh.
   Má bhíonn an ghaoth adtuaidh ag séideadh sin comhartha sneachta.
   Má théigheann an grian go dtí an taobh ó dheas sin comhartha báistighe.

   [Seán Ó Cathasaigh
   Beitheach Beag, Cathair Loisgráin.]

   

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2. Deaths

   

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   Deaths: Block stopped. Arrival of friends who set up a great Keening. The winding sheet- four corners are cut off and kept. Sometimes hair is cut off and kept as souvenir. Chief mourners would sit and do still on coffin when carried in a cart to graveyard. Relatives carry out the coffin. When a person is being coffined, all leave the room except those putting corpse in coffin. When people meet funeral they walk 3 steps in it, or turn round cart [???] funeral passes. Person who lays out dead person washes the sheets. A habet is put on. Funeral goes long way to graveyard. Keening the dead was an old custom. Keeners were hired.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. de Clair

   Gender

   Male