School: Cannistown (roll number 15104)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Cheanainn, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Ghiobúin
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“Please Miss Gibbons ¶ I forgot to tell the gentleman about a round stone with a hole in the centre in the Chapel part of Cannistown graveyard...”
Please Miss Gibbons
I forgot to tell the gentleman about a round stone with a hole in the centre in the Chapel part of Cannistown graveyard it was the custom at all funerals 40 or 50 years ago to see who would rise it with their one hand the could raise it at that time but Shaires [?] no one could do it now their is an old man about 90 he lives about a mile from here in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matthew Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Cheanainn, Co. na Mí