School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 193
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- (continued from previous page)As far as I can learn this church was built in a very early century and belonged to the Catholics but it fell into the hands of the Protestants in the Penal days.
There is a mound in the graveyard at the west side without any headstone where victims of the Great Famine were buried. It seems that headstones were not common when this was first used as a graveyard as the earliest dated headstone is 1751 and the next dated 1763.
There are two tombs in this graveyard, one where Rector Armstrong was buried in 1817. He was a Protestant Minister of Farrahy. The other is where the Bowen family used to be buried. The last member of this family to go into this tomb was Charles Bowen a victim of the Boer War. The meaning of the word Farrahy is a piece of waste ground.
The name of the person that told me this is Mr. Patrick Barry and he heard it from his father who is now dead.
- Collector
- John Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farahy, Co. Cork
