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   “There is a very old graveyard in Ballyhogue. ”

   

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   There in the ruins of an old church in the graveyard, and it dates back to the time of Cromwell. It was a Monastery that time some people say. Cromwell men burned down the church, and there were monks living in it that time and they killed them, and they are buried not far from the graveyard. The cross that was on the top of the church is to be seen still in the graveyard. It is almost four hundred years ago since Mass was said in that church.
   On the main road from Wexford to Enniscorthy there was a friary chapel somewhere convenient to the road. This was burned down also in Cromwell's time.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Peadar Ó Dorcaigh