School: Rath Sionnaigh

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   stayed there for a year after he concecrated it, and he used to say mass behind a little height in the middle of the park, and after he left mass was never said here again. The priest saw that he had a free chance to go to America at the time of the famine. Everybody who died in Coolcross at the time of the famine was buried in this graveyard.

   

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   There was a man one time, and he killed a priest's brother, and he buried him in his own garden. No one knew who killed him, but they were thinking it was this man. The man went to confession, and he knew if he would tell the sin, that the priest would not tell it to anyone. He told the priest that he killed his brother, and he said he buried him in the garden, and that he would show him the place. One day the man showed him the place, and said "When I killed your brother, this is the place I buried him.

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