Volume: CBÉ 0548 (Part 1)

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1. Carrying the Coffin (continued)

   

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   world at all. I heard several yarns like that. And you'd hear several yarns about people meeting funerals in the night; and hearing funerals going; and the dead coach. The dead coach was often heard in places around here. I don't know but it's heard yet over about Tottenham Green.

   

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2. Bell

   

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   The bell is rung on the day of the funeral. That is if the person that died lived near the chapel. Sometimes a funeral might be leaving a house that would be three or four miles from the chapel and going off in a different direction; Well the bell wouldn't be rung at all then maybe, sometimes it wouldn't. The person looking after the chapel generally does it; or maybe some fellow that would be living near the chapel that would be in the habit of doing it; he'd do it. The people of the house would give him a couple of shillings for doing; about two shillings or half crown usually. (In Cork they ring

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   Date

   Iúil 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Séamas de Faoite