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Ar an leathanach seo

1. Illness, Death, Funerals Etc. (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   with a mournful tune something like the following:-
   drmmmmrdrrrrdl,
   mmmmrdl,rrr.
   This was repeated over and over with plenty of quivering in the voice and usually good singers were chosen to sit on coffin.

   The words to the above tune were "leow, leow leow" and these repeated over and over and after a while they'd let it fade away.
   Outside each house on the way to the graveyard, the cart stopped and the same "leow leow" was sung. This song might last for seven or eight minutes. As was said before good singers were selected for the job and often got a great name eg. "So and So" is a fine or wonderful singer.
   X Jude Henry says that before the time of coffins, the corpse was covered in a sheet, put into a clíabh and dumped into a hole and as before, sheet washed and taken home.
   No habits Sheets were wound around

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

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   Thomas Hegearty

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