School: Beárna Dhearg (B) (roll number 14633)
- Location:
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Flaithrí Ó Súilleabháin
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- ( Canon Bourke says that in order that this honour be conferred on a dead hero he must face at least 50 of his enemies and kill at least 10 before he succumbs. His body is then cremated an enclosed in an urn, and the whole covered by a cairn - to remember (?) of the Sept is to pass the grave without adding his quota to the pile )
Carn na Mairbh
Every time we pass the road, we see a heap of stones on the side of the road: near "Brannelly's shop. We want to know how did that heap come there".
That's is just what I am goin to tell you".About hundred years ago there was some kind of a war in Ireland. One of the soldiers were killed, and was buried under that heap of stones: which we see when we are passing by. Every funeral that ever passed that road would stand. They would stand the horses and carts:- and every single one that followed the funeral would pick up a stone and fire it in over the grave saying in the "Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost amen". Every funeral that passed would do that until they wouldn't leave a stone in the roads or in the holes of the walls but they'd fire in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Kate Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Barnaderg, Co. Galway
