School: Ballyneal (Kilmurry)
- Location:
- Ballyneill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Manning Joseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 058
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“There is a mystery surrounding the presence of six large Celtic Crosses in four very oldcemeteries, Ahenna, Kilbride, Kilamery and Kilkirn.”
(continued from previous page)I have said, he recorded the presence of only four. They stand in their respective sites in the ordinary way. They are all about the same height and size but there is some difference in the carving. They are all of the same material and it is strange to say that there is no quarry in the land wherein the same quality of stone could be found. But to tell about them as the story goes, what has been handed down to us.
There was born to a poor man seven babies and, he seeing the difficulty of rearing them decided in his weakness to drown them. So he placed them in a basket and going along he met a priest who asked him what(continues on next page)
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- Josie Corbett
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Flynn
- Gender
- Female