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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 9

Averil with companions (kingsinns.ie)

Eventually, most if not all of Averil’s relatives, friends and
colleagues had died, including her Greystones connections,
among them both Morphy sisters, dead in 1964 and 1973
respectively, and in 1963 Muriel Bewley at Portland House.

Greystones had changed and few remembered who or what
she had been. In 1975, an elderly, vulnerable Anglo-Irish
resident living in a large, cold, echoing home was persuaded to
leave everything behind and be cared for by her longstanding
daily housekeeper. The care she received at Mrs Bourke’s home
at 98 Applewood Heights must have been beneficial for it was to
be another 4 years before she died. Her funeral at St Patrick’s
Church was a low-key affair, her passing marked by a small
congregation, familiar with the devout attendance of a small,
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