School: Maigh Locha (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Héigeartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)not as it is now. Mr. O'Rourke made great changes in the graveyard. Some of the houses in which the Yoe-men lived in were built of headstones.
There are two burial-grounds for children near Moylough. One is situated on a hill in Lake-view and the other in Moylough Beag.
There are no headstones in the children's burial grounds except crosses made of iron. A graveyard where unbaptised children are buried is called a Cillíneach. The graveyard called Esker Stephens is situated on a sand-hill and it seem very ancient according to the tombs.
