School: Ráth na Loch (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 16999)
- Location:
- Ráth na Loch, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Donnchadha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 060
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- Long ago there lived in Currans a man named Rooney who lived to be very old. For some time before his death he was accustomed to sleep sitting in a chair. It was customary in those days to lay out the corpse on the kitchen table.
From being in a sitting posture so long, they found that they could not lay the corpse flat, so they put a rope across the chest and tied it to the table. About twelve o clock that night as the porter was being given round some person cut the rope and the corpse immediately sat up and the people made a rush for the door and some were trampled under-foot.
- Collector
- Pat Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr William Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cill Feidhlim, Co. Chiarraí
