School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0265, Page 102A
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- (continued from previous page)trees growing in it. There are many crosses and a tomb in the graveyard. Local families still use this graveyard. Outside the graveyard is a stone cross with inscriptions on it. Some of the tombstones bear inscriptions of anvils, hammers, and such like.
Rahara.
Rahara is an old graveyard and it is still in use. It is level and there are many trees growing in it. There are many old crosses and one old building in this graveyard. There are two very distinguished priests buried in it also. Local families still use this graveyard though they live a distance from it.
Portrun.
Portrun graveyard is a very old graveyard. It is still used. It is rugged and slopes to the west, and there are some trees growing in it. There are many crosses, and the ruins of an old church in it also. Local families still use this graveyard.
Kilcommon.
Kilcommon is a very old graveyard(continues on next page)
