School: Clunelly (roll number 15953)
- Location:
- Tromaty, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 83
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There are six recognized graveyards in this parish. There is one at Drung and on at Iskaheen. These tow are Catholic grave-yards. Then there are Protestant grave-yards situated in Greenbank, Redcastle, Muff, and one at Knowhead. There are two old graveyards in this parish too, and infant burial ground at Carrowkeel, and another old graveyard in the Clunelly district. These grave-yards are all in use except the infant burial ground and the grave-yard in Clunelly. Some of these are round in shape and there are churches within them except in the two disused ones. There is a new chapel at Drung and there are the ruins of an old chapel there too. The graveyard at Drung is not level but sloping eastwards. There are some very big tombstones and monuments in the graveyard at Iskaheen. There are people buried within the ruins of the old Chapel at Drung, but there is nobody being buried there now. There is no person in this district now who remembers burials to take place in the graveyard at Clunelly or in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shiels
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cross, Co. Donegal
