School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Máire de Paor Dd. Allman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0415, Page 009
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- (continued from previous page)supposed to die within twelve months.
'Tisn't right to walk over a grave.
If the first person you met in the morning was a red-headed soldier, he'd hang you that day.
When a person dies, someone should wear his clothes and boots for three Sundays at Mass.
The hair you cut off you should keep, because you'ld be looking for it at the day of Judgement.
You should keep any teeth you pull, because you'ld be looking for them in the day of Judgement.
When a star falls, there's a soul gone to heaven.
People should never put the right age on a coffin; it should be a year younger or a year older.
It isn't right to open a coffin, from once it is closed.
The first person the cat looks at after washing his face will die before twelve months.
The person that shaves a corpse is always allowed to keep the razor.
A coffin should always be rested on chairs outside the door, before it is removed to the church or graveyard.
Everything that's left over after a wake (snuff, tobacco, candles, etc.) should not be returned or used again, but should be destroyed.
They say that if you'ld fall in a churchyard, that that day twelve months you'ld be dead.
Anything brought into a house after a person dying, shouldn't be removed out again until the person is buried.
'Tisn't right that a relation should make the coffin.(continues on next page)
