School: Iorball Sionnaigh (roll number 16923)
- Location:
- Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Cionnaith
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 087
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 87
Long ago before hearses were used four men carried the coffin on four hand spokes.These hand spokes were like the handle of a spade and were painted like the coffin.It was customary for the people to leave down the coffin and drink whisky before coming to the chapel.Once,when doing this the people took too much drink and so got drunk.While drunk they forgot to bury the coffin and went home.When Bishop Murphy,then bishop of Clogher,heard this he said there was no more drink to be taken at funerals.The people said if this was so they would pay no offering.To this the bishop agreed and since then no offerings were paid in this parish.The hollow in which this incident occured has ever been known as "The Whiskey Hollow".It is the hollow in the country road in the townland of Drumdesco in the parish of Tydavnet.
- Collector
- Paul Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellanode, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellanode, Co. Monaghan
