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School: Loch Coiteáin (roll number 10049)

Location:
Dromickbane, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 320

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  1. Old Customs and Pishogues (continued)

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    After a corpse has been coffined, the relatives from both sides, give the bed a push. The idea is to push death away from their own branch of the family.
    The narrow end of a coffin has to be taken out the door first.
    A young couple do not go to mass, the first Sunday after being married.
    It is right to bottor a candle for the first child. If one were presented, it would also be all right.
    Clocks are always stopped in a house, when anybody dies.
    It is not right to come home alone, by night, from a wake.
    Some people would not lend any part of a churn.
    It is right to have something borrowed getting married.
    Something old, something new
    " borrowed, " blue.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    K. Riordan
    Address
    Tullig More, Co. Kerry