School: Áth Dara (C.)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Boardman
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- (continued from previous page)mattress is turned over and all chairs and stools etc turned on their sides.
9. All headstones in a graveyard face the east.
10. It is a custom to pull down blinds when a person is dead in a house and leave door opened.
11. It is customary to hang a knot of black crepe on front door and a black edged envelope with name of deceased peson and the time of the funeral.
12. It is a custom for near relations to wear black
13. Widow's wore heavy mourning called widow's weeds - lots of black crepe trimming and a thick black veil.
14. White flowers are put on a young person's grave, and purple on an old person's grave.
