School: Clondalkin (Pres. Convent) (roll number 7883)
- Location:
- Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr. M. Kevin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0795, Page 189
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- In the parish of Clondalkin there are seven churchyards. The names of these are Killbride, Clondalkin, Bluebell, Oldchurch, Ballyfermot, Castlebaggot and Palmerstown. Killbride, Ballyfermot and Castlebaggot cemeteries are round in shape. The church in Bluebell slopes from west to east. There are many old crosses made of wood, iron and granite there. Some of the crosses have inscriptions on them but some of them are so old that they cannot be read. In the graveyard there is an old ruin of a church and long ago people were buried in it. In Bluebell churchyard there is a small round-tower monument. The Bluebell churchyard was made in 1700 A.D. There is also a new graveyard which was made in 1925. Old people say that long ago when people died in hospital, of a disease that the doctors did not know of, they used to follow the funeral to the graveyard where the corpses [sic] was to be buried and they would drop phosphorus on the grave unknown to the relations. They would come back at night and open the grave and take the corpses away with them for study. The people who did this were called the "Sack 'em Ups".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drimnagh Road, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr William Farren
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 34
- Occupation
- Mechanic
- Address
- Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
