School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0036
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- XML “Mo Cheantar Féin”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Kilconly is the name of my native village. It derived its name from a surname called Connolly and a grave. Two men brought a coffin
in a cart drawn by a wild, fidgety
old horse, from some remote place in mayo to the old church in Kil-
shanvy. It was almost dark when
they arrived there, so they left the
horse, cart and coffin outside whi-
le they were making the grave, but
in the meantime the horse went
and when the grave was finished
there was no coffin to go into it. The
men were perplexed for a while; till
one of them said that, as the horse
was facing east, she certainly did not turn on the road to go back
again, so they travelled in this direct-
ion. At dawn the overtook the
horse at the corner of the graveyard
were the iron railing is now. As
the journey was long to return to Kil-
shany, they decided to make another grave inside the wall there. When(continues on next page)
