School: Dumha-chaisil

Location:
Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Dubhda
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 288

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 288

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Dumha-chaisil
  2. XML Page 288
  3. XML “Old Graveyards”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. In the parish of Bunninadden there are three public graveyards. One of them "The Roy" is in the townland of Toormore in Doocastle, the second is in Cloonameehan and the third is in Kilturra.
    They are all in use now, but at one time "The Roy" was closed to the public by Joe Mór McDonnell. It was then prophes [?] by the Parish priest, Fr. Doddy, tho' he would find out before he died that the graveyard would be filled before that, and also that there would not be place for himself in it.
    This was true for his wife and all his family died before himself, who was buried in
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Flynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ogham, Co. Sligo