School: Gleannóg, Malla (roll number 9448)
- Location:
- Glannoge, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs K. Barrow
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0363, Page 097
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- (continued from previous page)After the marriage ceremony the married couple drive away to her home where a feast awaits them. Then they leave for their honey-moon but the destination is not known to the bride.Funerals and Wakes.
It is customary when the longest road to the grave-yard from the wake-house has been travelled to walk all round the grave-yard with the coffin before resting it where it is to be buried.
When you walk against a funeral you must turn and walk 3 steps with it - these are called "trí coiscéim na trocaire".
Tea must not be drunk in the room where the corpse are:
If the remains are to be buried in a Protestant Church-yard the coffin must be brought in some entrance other than that used by the Protestants.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs K. Barrow
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanavoher, Co. Cork
