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School: Holmpatrick (roll number 14180)

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D. Kevelighan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 92

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  1. A Little Graveyard at Milverton

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    A little graveyard at Milverton. One Sunday as St.Mobhí along a country road he came to a field where a man was ploughing. He asked him "why he was ploughing on Sunday" He answered "St Mobí or St Mobhí I'll plough this field before I go" And the ground was supposed to have opened and swallowed him up. It is now a graveyard situated in the south of the Milverton estate, about two and a half miles from Skerries. It is very small, being not any bigger than the school room, yet there are over one hundred people buried in it. There are no head stones to the grave and therefore they can not be seen easily. There is a slight hollow in the middle where the ground was supposed to have opened and swallowed the man up.
    Told to me by Edwina Jones
    Ms Swarbrigg Knockcairn,
    20 Dublin Road Skerries
    Skerries CO. Dublin
    CO. Dublin
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edwina Jones
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skerries, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr Swarbrigg
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dublin Road, Co. Dublin