School: Eatharlach (Aherlow) (roll number 15678)
- Location:
- Eatharlach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Énrí Mac Eochaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)up to about 10 years ago the people used to shoulder the coffin the whole way to the church often 3 or 4 miles.
When the coffin is being taken from the hearse to the church there is a standing custom that only relatives should shoulder the coffin.
Priests attend the funeral the following day and in nearly all cases requiem mass is said that morning. There is a custom that no relative should help in filling the grave.
There is also another custom that no mother should go into the graveyard for the funeral of the first member of her family. Women during pregnancy never go into a grave during a funeral.
People never visit friends on the return from a funeral and the last person in the funeral should be someone who was lately bereaved.
A few days after the funeral the relatives come with sods from their own farm (or in the case of a shop keeper or other person without a farm the sods are got on the land of a relative or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Enrí Mac Eochaidh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
