School: Tomhaggard
- Location:
- Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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- When anybody dies in Kilmore, the people make two wooden crosses. When they are going to bury the person they always put one of the crosses in a skeough near Grange cemetery. It was an old custom in the early days of putting the cross in the skeough, and it has continued on to the present days.
In Tomhaggard the chapel bell is rung when anybody dies. - There is an old custom in Kilmore about funerals. Every time a funeral is coming from Kilmore it leaves a cross on a hawthorn tree in Sarshill. And when a funeral is coming from the Quay, it leaves a cross at Brandycross.
- Collector
- Eamonn Carty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cross-scales, Co. Wexford
- Visitors to Kilmore are always struck by the unusual sight of a heap of wooden crosses(continues on next page)