One of the last "tin-can makers" in the country was buried in Sligo yesterday.
Tommy Lawrence, an 82-year-old settled Traveller, was carried 8km to his grave in a ceremonial horse-drawn hearse.
Several hundred people attended the funeral Mass at Sligo Cathedral before the funeral procession around the town and the outskirts.
The glass-and-chrome carriage was pulled by a pair of plumed black stallions.
The procession passed his first house where he became a settled Traveller at a seaside beauty spot with the address The Rocks, Gibraltar.
It also brought him past his last residence in the suburb of Maugheraboy and his local public house, O'Neills, on Church Hill.
Bishop Christopher Jones of Elphin said prayers on Monday evening at the removal of the remains to the cathedral.
Mourners, including his six children and several dozen grandchildren, heard how he was known as "the tin-can man" because of how he earned his living.
One family friend said: "There's hardly a house in Sligo without a bucket or can that Tommy didn't fix. He was the last of the tin-can men."
Mr Lawrence's wife, Mary Ellen, died aged 32 in 1969.