School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Cúil Rónáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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- (continued from previous page)It was the custom that everyone would smell snuff and smoke clay pipes at the expense of the house at wakes.My father told me that he never heard tell of a caoine. So it must be a long time since it was practised in Rathkeenan because my father's people are here for the past three generations.They used to play games at wakes such as (1)"The Cobbler and the tinker
(2) The house that Jack built.
(3) The priest of the parish lost his considering cap. - Essie got this from her father Patrick Keogh. It is a wake game or rhyme.
The Crooked crab tree.Heres the crooked crab tree
Heres the crooked grass that grew
around the crooked crab tree
Here's the crooked horse that ate the grass that
grew around the crooked crab tree.
Heres the crooked man that rode the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Essie Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Keogh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male