School: Newgrove
- Location:
- Lisnageer, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Newburn
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- The first thing is done is to send for a man or woman who shaves a person when they dye.
It is usually a woman who lays out the corpse. They put the dead body in a sheet or a night suit. It is kept in the house in which it dies for two day before it is burried. The night after the person has died there is nearly always a wake at which I believe there is great fun. If there is not drink there is always cigarettes and tobbacco. The four tallest men usually carry out the coffin to the hearse. There are never any woman at the funeral. The usually go to the burial in the middle of the day.
