School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)
- Location:
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)Frosses. The graveyard was small. No mounds are to be seen in it now because the soil is a sandy mixture. The Franciscans had another small monastery in Dysart at the foot of Carn a Mhaoin. Here the sick monks and those devoted to literature lived. Round the monastery in Dysart was another small graveyard. This graveyard is not often in use now but it was used until about twenty years ago. Even yet children who die in their infancy are buried there.
About the year 1609 when the Franciscans were banished from their monastery in Inver, they retreated to their little estate in Dysart.
Here they were allowed to continue their religious work undisturbed for a while. The remains of the old altar and the stones used as candle sticks are yet to be seen there. Father Canning who died and was interred in the Inver graveyard [in 1801] was the last (the) to celebrate Mass In the well known (altar) still standing at Dysart on the site of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Roes, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Charles Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
