School: Tón Ruadh (roll number 12809)
- Location:
- Tonroe, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Giobaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 113
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- (continued from previous page)Cloonaweema. It is on Pat Burke's land. This is now disused. An aunt to Mrs. Jane Hurst was the last one buried there. This burial took place about thirty years ago. There are numbers of old tombs over the graves but they are broken and tumbled.
All unbaptised children were buried in a small round piece of land surrounded by bushes called a fort. These are not used now, for there is a small plot in every graveyard for the purpose.
Local families still use certain graveyards. Many people refuse to agree to being buried in the local graveyard. As a mark of love and respect for their people who went before them they ask to be taken to the graveyard where those people rest.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Gabhláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonnagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Walter Sherlock
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tonnagh, Co. Mayo
