SRH 20. Nure Wake House

Location: 53.345, -8.01004 Park beside the road. Known to the present day as "The Caoinna Marbh" (crying of the dead), this Wake house was frequently used in early Christian times to rest coffins and coffin carriers when funeral corteges passed through on their way to Clonmacnoise. The interior is furnished with a limestone funeral bearer intended to replicate the recumbent coffin position, the practices and customs of old time wakes in rural Ireland when snuff and clay pipes were much used during the waking period.