School: Presentation Monaster, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: J. K. O' Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 230
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“At the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century a family named Coleman addd part of the disused graveyard to their farm by levelling the boundary ditch on the east and building another ditch further in”
The following items should have been written after the notes on Mellifontstown
At the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century a family named Coleman added part of the disused graveyard to their farm by levelling the boundary ditch on the east and building another ditch further in
While they were at this vandalism one Seán ÓCoileáin a farmer living in the adjoining townland of Carhoo and who is referred to as a "bit of a poet" called on the Colemans several times and remonstrated with them but failed to stop the vandalism. However, Collins succeeded in preserving a stone believed to be a holy water font.
(Told to the present writer about thirty years ago by an old man named Patrick Coleman a grandson or great grandson of the Coleman who demolished the boundary fence of the graveyard)(continues on next page)