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Wakeman's handbook of Irish antiquities

Note 72 — Chapter V · BURIAL CUSTOMS.​—​OGAM STONES.

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Dr. Sullivan was of opinion that these words are used here in the sense of funeral pyre; but this is not accepted, as strictly they are applied to the whole funeral rite, especially to the reciting of dirges, and the performance of games. See Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, vol. i., cccxxiii.

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