ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which burial and mourning practices have manifested themselves in a particular landscape, historically and in the present, and the relationship between these in producing an emotional landscape reflecting personal and collective geographical imaginations. It has been suggested that the dead have been under-integrated into Anglo-American society, and that societies, as well as bereaved individuals, have to find place/s for bereavement, although those places may change over time. The making of contemporary vernacular memorials represents an episodic continuity of practice from the Bronze Age through to nineteenth century Roman Catholic and Nonconformist minority burial and memorial practices. They also reflect the Celtic Christian life view in which the sacred and everyday are interwoven, and the strong place attachment common in expressions of Manx identity. Evidence also suggests that Peel Hill can be seen as both adjunct to and contra St Patrick's Isle's formal historic sacred status.
