School: Oram (roll number 8496)
- Location:
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. McMahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 361
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- (continued from previous page)out the mounds, or graves of this clan. It was like scarletina fever that came on them. Housed under-ground in damp and cold, scarce food and bad food there were no crops only a barren waste, no fresh air wrought what Cromwell and his officers wished, death to all who would not join England's Reformation. Tullaghnabasta is given to mean burial ground of unbaptised children. There is nothing now, but shrubery and an odd stone on its edge to mark the burial ground of the once famous Clan of the McGraths.
- Collector
- Patrick Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- M. Murray
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lisdonny, Co. Monaghan
