School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)

Location:
Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 647

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    place there.
    Years ago, unbaptized children were buried in forts. At a later period they were buried in disused graveyards. Unbaptized children, nowadays, are buried in graveyards but not in the graveyards of their fathers.
    Local families still use certain graveyards though they may be further distant than the parish graveyard - they use the graveyard of their ancestors.
    If a woman died at a young age without issue she is, as a rule, buried with her own people.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eugene Moriarty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Moriarty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry