School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 217
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is but one public graveyard in Beare- Island, and its not more than a century old. It contains only two tombs, and a very ancient grave with a cairn on it. There are some very high monkey-trees and other trees growing in it. It is not a level yard, but there is an incline in it sloping to the north-east. There are some wooden crosses in it but none of them are very old.Before this graveyard the people used to be buried in any field in the district. Very few people nowadays can remember any of the old graves, but a few are to be seen in certain places in the district. In a small island called Turk Island a few yards from the shore, are to be seen a great number of graves and along by the shore at a place called Bank there is a little patch of land(continues on next page)
