When the present church which is dedicated to St Michael was being built in Lixnaw one wall of the old church was allowed to stand near the altar rails in the new building. Usually when a person went to confession in Lixnaw, the penance imposed on him was - to go to Kiltomey cemetery and bring from there a skeleton and place it by the old wall in the chapel. The story teller - Mary Brosnan remembers quite well to see a large heap of skeletons there, to her knowledge the people did not take [?] the skeletons, but she does not know what happened them.
Another penance imposed on penitents was to stand near the