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School: Droichead na Ceathramhna

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Bridgecartron or Derrycashel, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 418

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    There is a field behind Tom McLoughlin's of Bridge-Cartron where mass used to be read in Penal days. The trace of the altar with the cross on it is there yet. During later years, this place was changed to a graveyard where unbaptised children were buried.
    Here too an old tree called Crannmore, which coulc be seen fifteen miles away, was growing in the graveyard. This tree which has fallen within the last five years and the remains of which are still to be seen, gets it name because there is no tree in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kavanagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreenine, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    James Kavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    87
    Address
    Derreenine, Co. Roscommon