School: Dromiskin (B.), Dundalk (roll number 837)

Location:
Dromiskin, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Jas. Morgan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0666, Page 022

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    to travel about it.It's elevated position commands a view of Dromiskin and it's environment.
    It is hardly a very ancient graveyard because the oldest headstone which has a date carved on it only dates back about two hundred years. There are old graves with stones and slates marking their sites and these graves are supposed to be even older than two hundred years because carving on every headstone was not the custom then. However it cannot be said whether these are very old graves or not.
    There are not many strange epitaphs on the
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English