School: Rathpeacon, Blackpool, Corcaigh (roll number 11761)
- Location:
- Rathpeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 354
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- There are two Churchyards in this district, one in Kilcully and the other in Whitechurch. Both are in use. There are some very old headstones in both Churchyards and are mostly round in shape.
The oldest dates on these headstones are from sixteen hundred up. The shape of both churchyards are rectangular, Kilcully churchyard is sloping towards the west. Whitechurch churchyard is sloping towards the north-east.
There is an old ruin of a Protestant Church in the old part of Kilcully graveyards. Nobody is buried within its walls. In Whitechurch where the ruin of old church was there are graves now an people are being buried there still.
The crosses in the old part of both graveyards are mostly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcully, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Abina Buckley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Monard, Co. Cork
