School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 433
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- (continued from previous page)It was the custom that everyone would smell snuff and smoke clay pipes at the expense of the house at wakes.My father told me that he never heard tell of a caoine. So it must be a long time since it was practised in Rathkeenan because my father's people are here for the past three generations.They used to play games at wakes such as (1)"The Cobbler and the tinker
(2) The house that Jack built.
(3) The priest of the parish lost his considering cap.
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- Collector
- Essie Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Keogh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
