School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)
- Location:
- Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Nic Sheáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 365
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- There are three churchyards in this district. The names of two of them are the Pettigo Churchyards and the Lettercran Churchyard. They are still in use. None of the them are round in shape. There are churches in them but they are not ruined. There is another graveyard in the townland of Carne, there is a site of a church in it but there are no traces of the walls. The shape of the graveyard is oblong and it slopes towards the east. There are trees growing in it. There are some very old tombs in this graveyard, the dates of them are 1736, 1739, and later. There are trees growing in it. There are stone crossed. There are some old tombs in the graveyard with a coat of arms on them but it is impossible to make out what they are. There are one or two stones with a skull and cross bones on them. There are people buried where the old church used to stand in the graveyard. Four brothers who died in one day during the Famine are buried here. Unbaptised children were buried in the churchyard. Local families use the country graveyards though they are much further away than the parish graveyard.
- Collector
- Ernest Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr B. Crawford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Cullion, Co. Donegal
