School: Macha na gClaidhe (roll number 16086)
- Location:
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Macháin
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- There are 5 Graveyards in the Parish
1) The Abbey
2) Cill Mac Comóg situated 1 mile west of Kealkil (Catholic)
3) Bantry Church Yard (Catholic)
4) Bantry Protestant Graveyard in the back of Bantry town.
5) There is a graveyard in Whiddy Island.
Scarcely any people are buried in the Whiddy Island graveyard of late years. The Graveyards are Rectangular Shapes. There is a Cabhlach in Cill Mac Comóg Graveyard and people are sometimes buried in this Cabhlach - The slope faces east in all cases, where such exists.There is an old tomb (the only one I'v seen ever) in Cill Mac Comógue Graveyard. It was errected by a man (Portugeese) - native of Portugal - Named Captain Biaia. (?) This Captain was shipwrecked in Bantry Bay over 70 years ago. He landed safely himself and after a number of years; he 'settled down' at Kealkil Village where he married a rich farmers daughter. He died about 30 years ago approx.
His daughter's line still and keep a shop.
