School: Mullagh (C )
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Elizabeth Murchan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 236
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mullagh (C )
- XML Page 236
- XML “Funeral Customs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Funeral processions always take the longest route.
Till lately, they used to carry the corpse, three times around the graveyeard before putting it into the grave.
If overnight, a bit of earth of the grave falls in, there is great alarm amoung the dead person's friends. It is supposed to foretell the early death of another of the family.
Even still, when the people around Mullagh meet a funeral even of a person they do not know, they turn round and walk three paces with it.
All clocks in a house where a corpse is being "waked" are stopped
