School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Baile idir Dhá Abhainn, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 157
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- (continued from previous page)There was a graveyard at Drumcolm once but it is not used now. There is no ruin of any church there now.
- In the parish of Riverstown there are about six graveyards. There is a graveyard in Ardagh called Templemore about two miles from Riverstown. There are some protestants buried there is an old story about the monks who lived in the monastery there.
One day the monks asked the landlord's son to dinner. They had a sheep killed and the landlord's son, liking the mutton went home and told his father about it. The father decided to have the field for himself and he hunted the monks off it. When they were leaving(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maura Keaney
- Gender
- Female
