School: Cill Fhearga (roll number 15128)
- Location:
- Killarga, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 403
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- (continued from previous page)trees growing in Killargue graveyard. If the old people went to mark their graves they put tomb stones over them. It was always said that Killargue graveyard came down from Cornamorriff and settled in the rocks of Killargue.There was no special place for burying unbaptised children but they were not buried in consecrated ground. They were buried in the fields. Local families use the same graveyard and every person wishes to know their own family burial ground. It is very hard to know it when it is not marked out in any way. People believed that the souls of the dead were buried in them, and that their souls were about them. That preserved them from attack of any kind.
- Collector
- James Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnyhoosy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Slavin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Gortnacorkoge, Co. Leitrim
