School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 092
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- (continued from previous page)Aghabullogue. One which is situated in the chapelyard and which is in the townland of Dromatimore, is also a burial place for priests, and the other one is in Coolinea and is in the townland of Coolinea. All those graveyards are still in use. There is an old church ruin in the Magourney and the Coolinea graveyards. The Magourney graveyard slopes a little in the southerly direction. There are trees growing in the graveyards in this locality. There are people buried within the ruins of the churchyard. There are no disused graveyards in this parish.
The only story that I ever heard that was connected with the local graveyard was, that there was once a family who lived in a house near the graveyard. One day a member of the family took a flagstone out of the graveyard and took it home with him as a hearth flag. That night any member of the family could not sleep with the noise and shuffling that was going on in the kitchen near the fireplace, and that noise did not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Dineen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Stephen Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
