School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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1. The Friars of Adare Abbey Celebrated Mass in Penal Days in Creagán na hOla (continued)

   

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   ceased to spring when a woman steeped wool in it to make it up for the spinning wheel. It is the second oldest churchyard in Ireland. The say a soul goes to Heaven every Saturday night out of it.

   From Con Normoyle, Rour, Adare (55 years)

   

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2. An Old Graveyard

   

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   An Old Graveyard Of the various churchyards in Adare Parish The Creagaun na hOla as it is most commonly called, is the oldest. It is situated about two miles form the village and stands on a hill overlooking the Coonagh river. It is circular in shape and it contains from twenty to thirty graves they being those of the very oldest families of the parish such as the Nash family, the McCarthy family and the Fitzgerald family. It is surrounded by

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
            1. graveyards (~2,501)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigid Scanlon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Adare, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs E. Scanlon

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Adare, Co. Limerick