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the enemy, cf. Jubainville, Introduction, p. 179), and a stone {Ha) being placed 

 above it. Thus Derbforgaill is buried, LL. p. i 25^ : ro lad afert 7 al-lia la Coinciilaind. 

 LL. p. 106 b : focherte afert 7 a lecht 7 a lie. LL. p. 15 b : ro class a fert 7 sdtir a lia. 

 LL. p. 30 b : ataat di chloich and .i. lecht Con indala n-di 7 lecht Cethin alaile. Oss. L i : 

 lia uas lecht. Conchobur was buried on the spot where he had died, and a stone pillar 

 was placed at his head and at his feet, LL. p. 124 a: atd a lige and baile i torcbair 7 

 corthefria chend 7 corthefria chossa. Over the grave-stone was then sometimes raised 

 the dtima, or mound, as in the passage from the Tochmarc Feirbe, quoted above. In 

 LU. p. 38 b, 4, fifty men and women are buried beneath one duma. A treduma, or 

 triple mound, is mentioned by Petrie, Tara, p. 117. 



1037. roferad a cluithe cainteach. Cf. 1. 501 and the passage quoted above from the 

 ylided Cl. L. This custom, which corresponds to the modern caoine, we find often 

 mentioned in the heroic tales. It was also customary in lamenting the dead to 

 enumerate their good qualities, as the following passage in the Toraigecht Tana Bo 

 Flidais, Edin. LIII. col. 87, shows : do ghab ag egaine a maic 7 acc tabairt a thesmolta, 

 ' he began to lament his son and to enumerate his several qualities.' 



