School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 252
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- There is an old graveyard about one mile from where I live. It is there since the famine. The people were buried there at that time. There are old headstones there, most of them are made of stone and some of iron. It is situated at Killcooly. It is still in use. It is a hilly graveyard and is in the shape of a square.
About one hundred years ago there was a man named Kelly herding his sheep outside the graveyard. It was the middle of the night. A neighbour of his had bee buried there about three weeks before. He heard digging inside in the graveyard and the breaking of a coffin.
He looked in and saw two women(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ethna Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Dockery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
