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School: Aghadachor (Aghador)

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Aghadachor, Co. Donegal
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Máire T. Ní Bhréasláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1078, Page 66

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  1. Graveyards

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    There are three graveyards in the parish, in Meevagh, Umlagh, and Carrigart. People are buried in all of them. There is an old graveyard in Drimdutton (Drumdutton) that is not used now. It is about one hundred years since people were buried there.
    The graveyards are all square. There are ruins of churches in Meevagh and Umlagh. The Umlagh graveyard is on a slope towards the west. There are trees growing in them. The tombstones are of granite or marble. It is in the south corner of Meevagh graveyard that the unbaptised children are buried.
    A lot of people from the district who die in foreign countries are not taken home but are buried abroad. When this is done their friends have to buy a plot in a cemetery.
    (Told by Mandy McGettigan, Drimlackagh)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Mc Gettigan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenree, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mandy Mc Gettigan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    81
    Address
    Drumlackagh, Co. Donegal