School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)

Location:
Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 254

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 254

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  1. About two hundred years ago there lived in Kilcorcoran a great poet named Michael Comyn.
    The place where he lived is still known as Páirc an Thighe Mhóir.
    He was very fond of old folklore, story telling, and poems, he wrote Laoi Oisín.
    About one hundred yards from his house there was a grave-yard in which people used to be buried from time to time.
    When a person used be buried all his friends used to cry after him.
    Michael's wife did not like to be listening to the people crying and lamenting after those who died, so she got the grave-yard removed to Ballard which was at the extreme end of their demense.
    The first man that was buried in the new grave-yard had no tombstone.
    His widow, who was going to Ballyvaughan to live there, set an alder tree in her husband's grave so that she might know it.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Sexton
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Pat Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Leeds, Co. Clare