School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)

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1. Funerals (continued)

   

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   and a plate of tobacco left over the corpse. Everybody who came in lit his pipe for it was said it was right do so in honor of the dead person.
   When it was time for the funeral to leave all the old women of the village and the relatives would gather around the coffin and cry out loudly. They would be heard a half of mile from that place. When this was done the men would put the women back and put the lid on the coffin. Then four men of the same sirname would put the coffin on their shoulders and carry it out. It was left on four chairs outside the door.
   After the funeral was gone chairs were knocked and remained down till they came home from the funeral. If this was not done it was said that another person or persons of that house would die before a year. The old women always cried going through a town, to let the

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Paddy Mc Donnell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cashel, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   69

   Address

   Curryaun, Co. Mayo