School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)

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1. Wake Games and Customs (continued)

   

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   These rhyme games were played when people sat up at night to keep them awake.
   Failure to repeat rhyme correctly or to come into the game at proper moment was punished by a stroke of the leather strap on the hand.
   Games were not played in the room where corpse was.
   Straw was strewn on the floor where players sat - all stools being in the wake room.
   Told by (Mrs Byrne Dunboyne)
   Snuff was supplied at wakes and occasionally done so now. Usually put on a paper placed on table between lighted candles beside bedside.
   Funerals even at present time go around the "big" tree in the village. Coffin was carried around the graveyard.
   It is noted that These funerals usually take place to the old cemetery within a short space of time.
   A grave falling in bespoke another death very soon in the same family.
   The stools and forms on which coffin is placed outside the house previous to being raised on shoulders of bearers and always thrown down and not removed until funeral has moved away.
   Caoining has not been practiced in this district

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Byrne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dunboyne, Co. Meath