School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)

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1. Graveyards (continued)

   

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   Albert Clarke of Graig Abbey. It is said that this headstone cost hundreds of pounds. In the Old Abbey in Athenry there are very few people buried now. After the Friars who lived in the Old Abbey were put to death and their monastery knocked a Friar appeared to a boy from Athenry while himself and another boy were looking at head-stones one day. When one of the boys saw the monk dressed as if he were alive he asked his comrade if he saw him but his comrade could not see him. Several people came there when the boys told them he saw one of the Friars but no one ever saw him after that.

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   One night a man names Michael Connor Mountpelier was going home from visit and it was very late as he had been card playing that night. On his way home he had to pas sby Templmoyle graveyard and not being a courageous man he kept looking into the graveyard.

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