School: Sean-cheann tSáile (roll number 9649)
- Location:
- Old Head, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- It is said that - 1. If a corpse is buried in any graveyard two others will quickly follow.2. Funerals follow the same road from home to churchyard that the funerals of ancestors followed. 3. It is usual to wake corpses one night in home and on second day it is removed to church.
4. The funeral from church must not again pass house where deceased lived. 5. It is thought unlucky to throw out the ashes when a person is dead in the house. 6. It is considered unlucky to pick up money in a graveyard or clean your shoes in a graveyard. 7. It is the custom to remove the sod or portion of the sod the night before the burial but it is thought unlucky to do so on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.8. It is the custom to provide snuff for the people attending the wake so that they may pray for the soul of the deceased.- Collector
- Mary Manning
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Kilcolman, Co. Cork