School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- The wakes used be held in the barn. Games were played by the young fellows. One of the games was "The House that Jack Built". A man was chosen who kept a leather strap and he got the others to say the rhyme. Any person who was unable to say the rhyme completely got a couple of whacks of the leather strap.My grandfather taught me the following rhyme which he heard at wakes: (phonetically written)"Hoo-il sin KAB (k leathan); Hosil sing layHooil sing tin; Hooil tay careOf the cobbler and the tinkerMerry be the firstMerry be the lastOf the cobbler and the Tinker"
This was said at the wake of my mother's grandfather
(Fuair Padraig Gillick (12 bhl) ó n-a shean-áthair 84 bl d'aois) - Tá bean annseo (Mrs Connell) in-a comhniudhe i mBaile na gCaorach (Sheepstown). Nally a h-ainm féin. Thóg siad teach nua achar gearr o'n t-sean-toigh agus ar an taoibh ó thuaidh de. Dubhrathas fa'n am go leanfadh an droch-ádh iad 'cionn a's a ghabháil Ó THUAIDH de'n tsean-fhódh leis an teach nua a thógáilt. Marbhadh a fear go gearr in-dhiaidh sin. Gluaisteán a rith isteach sa chárr 'na rabh sé ag teacht abhaile ó fhaoisidín ba adhbar báis dó.Deirtear gurab é bás a fir fíoradh na faistine(Mé féin a chuala seo ó Molly Connell, Mulliganstown atá mar chailín-aimsire agam
- Padraig O Droighneáin)- Collector
- Padraig Ó Droighneáin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Molly Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Mulliganstown, Co. Westmeath