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School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

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Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0235, Page 174

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    he took off his coat and turned it inside out, and at that moment he knew where he was. The greater number of the people call this graveyard ''Fhordín na Marbh'', but I do not why it is called so.
    In a very lonely place in the shade of a wood outside a place called Keadue, there is a square filed named ''Roilig Mumá''. At the time of the Famine it is said, that seven or eight mothers came from Carrick -on-Shannon to this field. They heard that there was plenty of potatoes in it so they started off walking trying to get a bit to eat for themselves and their children. When they reached their destination. everything in it was eaten. Words cannot explain the sorrow of these women then and it is said that they all died, and were all buried in one grave without a coffin or any covering on (-him-) them. This is why is was called ''Roilig Muná''.
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    There is another graveyard called Aughanagh, situated in a town of the same name, and it is bordering Lough Arrow. This graveyard is still in use, but there is a new one just beside it. The old graveyard is rectangular shaped and their is bushes all around it. The new one is also rectangular with a hedge of bushes along the east side. Both graveyards slope southwards.
    The old church of Aughanagh is situated in the grave-
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Esther Coleman
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Boyle, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mr Mc Donagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon