School: Annacarter

Location:
Mullinaveige, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Mary C. Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 268

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 268

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  3. XML “Archaeological - Wake and Funeral Customs”
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    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. games
            1. wake games (~170)
        2. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
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  2. No wake games are remembered in this parish, but tobacco and pipes are supplied in addition to a small dist of snuff being placed on the breast of the diseased.
    The custom of "Keening" over the dead does not appear to have ever existed here but if it ever existed it must have died out very soon after the eviction of the old inhabitants by the first of the Wingfields to make way for the New-comers ([?])
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