School: Wolfhill (roll number 3457)

Location:
Cnocán na Mac Tíre, Co. Laoise
Teacher:
P. Ó Dubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 307

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  1. There was a graveyard in Mullaghmandra near Crossard, Wolfhill about two hundred years ago. There is nothing to be seen there now but a few bushes. There are three graveyards in this parish and people are buried in the three. These graveyards are in Wolfhill, Clopook and Rathaspick. All the graveyards have a square shape.
    There are small mounds and bushes in these graveyards. There is one very old tomb in Wolfhill and it was erected in eighteen hundred and three. It was erected to the memory of Corneilius Meagher who was one of the United Irishmen. There were no burial places reserved for
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    Topics
    1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
        1. séadchomharthaí (~6,794)
          1. reiligí (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Gilmartin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Barr na Slaite Íochtarach, Co. Laoise
    Informant
    Bill Flanagan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Barr na Slaite Íochtarach, Co. Laoise