School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)and on entering the churchyard to keep to the left-hand side and go once round completely.
7. Another old custom was to "keen" the dead person from the house to the graveyard. This custom was quite common about forty or fifty years ago having remained in practice in this particular district long after it had died away in the surrounding districts.
8. Funerals going to the local graveyard some years ago always passed three times round an old ash tree which grew in a field close to the graveyard. This old custom is not practised now.
