School: Laragh (B.)
- Location:
- Larah, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)this their last call. A very interesting number of tombstones mark the burial places & and some beautiful coats of arms are imprinted thereon but as many are buried in soil it is nigh impossible to collect a sketch of all. However I intend to depict some and apologise for my poor attempt. I would suggest that the caretaker should be compelled to cut walks around & that the National Monument association should take this project in hand.
The oldest date I could find after inspection is one on headstone there
Rose Brady died in Nov 1733
another Brady died december (small d) 1769.
The close was due to overcrowding & along river may be found bones & pieces of coffin where graves had not been sunk to sufficient depth.
An old story is told where three men spent to late hours drinking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killycrone, Co. Cavan
