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1. Funerals and Wakes

   

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   Funerals and Wakes When a coffin would be brought out of a house and the dead person in it, There would be two stools and the coffin would be laid on them while the offerings was being collected. Then in taking up the coffin the stools should be knocked down the bearers would kick them down. From Pat Keogh Coolronan, Ballivor Meath

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Brown

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballivor, Co. Meath

2. Funerals and Wakes

   

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   People were waked long ago on boards but now it is not done so much.
   About a year ago here in Coolronan a young man was waked on a settle bed. His name was John Connor. There were sheets tied out of the rafters of the house and hung down. It was like a house around him. There were sheet's around him on every side.
   When people go into a wake they sprinkle holy water on the dead body. Long ago they used to give out snuff and cut up tobacco.
   The last of this done was at Christopher Conroys wake about 6 years ago.

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