School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Abbeydorney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)belongings to him and to his son in case he himself turned it back to the crown.
In the thirty-ninth year of Elizabeth's reign, a portion of its property was "granted" to the rector and fellows of the Protestant College of the Holy Trinity, near Dublin.
It is now a shapeless ruin.
In Killahan there are the remains of an abbey and the surrounding enclosure is used as a churchyard. There are crowds upon crowds of people buried there. The coffins are up in top of one another there and the people are now forbidden to bury their dead there anymore.
The people of Killahan and all around there carry their dead from here to Killflynn, Ardfert, Kiltorney, Clogherbrien, Kilsinan, Kilfeighney, Rath. The Soldiers Plot, Bully Acre, and the New Burying Ground in Tralee, and Killury and Kilmoyley and to churchill and to Annagh and to Killahan, but about half of those who die in the Parish of Abbeydorney are buried in the Abbey.
- Collector
- Nóra Ni Mhórdha
- Gender
- Female
