School: Clooney, Cuinche
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- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Clúmháin
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Customs at Funerals.
(1) The priests and doctors and the driver of the hearse ,used wear white linen at Funerals.
(2) Four of the same name used to carry out the corpse.
(3) The greater the respect they had for the dead person ,the farther they carried him on their shoulders.
(4) A person who had a great regard for the dead person would go "under" the coffin several times until it reached the graveyard.