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School: Creathlach, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 16371)

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Crataloe West, Co. Limerick
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Dáithí Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0485, Page 101

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    The graveyard in Temple-Athea contains the dead of Athea parish & of other parishes around, because their mothers & fathers have been buried there. That graveyard has a blessed well of St Brigid near it & there is a wall all round it, with some ruins of an old church which is said to have burned long ago.
    When a person is to be buried two men go to the graveyard & they take a spade & a shovel with them & dig a hole about six feet long & two feet wide. When they are digging the grave they get refreshments. When the person is buried the spade & shovel are left int he shape of a cross, over the & sometimes flowers are sown
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Nora Harnett
    Gender
    Female