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An Tobar Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe
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Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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    have the coffin in a horse and cart bringing the corpse to the chapel. When they would be gone nine of ten yards from the house they would strip the horse from the cart and go around the cart three times tracing in the horse to the cart. They would bring the corpse to the graveyard and bury him. The same two men that brought the cloth "Brac na (?)" to the corpse hours would have to leave it in the chapel.
    Joe Roche,
    Cloonbar,
    Kilconly,
    Tuam,
    Storyteller:-
    John Moran (aged 76 years)
    Cloonbar,
    Kilconly,
    Tuam.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Roche
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cluain Barr, Co. na Gaillimhe
    Informant
    John Moran
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Cluain Barr, Co. na Gaillimhe