School: Drom Mór (B.), Beantraí (roll number 13095)

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1. Local Customs Connected with our Dead (continued)

   

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   for a good story-teller to tell stories during the night. It used be a common custom up to a few years ago to have bodies 'laid-out' in the kitchen of their homes, but, that custom is now being discontinued and latterly most people who have died in the district have been 'laid-out' on the beds in which they died.
   It is customary to have the remains removed to the local church on the day following the death of a person at a convenient hour in the evening generally about 5 or 6 o'clock. There the remains rest over-night, there is Requiem Mass at 9 o'clock the following morning for the soul of the deceased, and the funeral leaves for the family burial ground - wherever that may be - generally about 2 o'clock.
   At the removal of the remains from the house the coffin is placed on 2 or 3 chairs outside the main door for about 5 minutes, then the nearest relatives collect and weep for their dead, the coffin is then removed by pall-bearers four men (or boys) of the same family name as deceased, and the chairs are immediately turned upside down.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pádraig Ó Drisceóil

   Gender

   Male