School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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- Cappoge Graveyard.I will now describe Cappoge graveyard. It is very small and square in shape.
There are a few trees growing in the graveyard.
Within the walls of the old church there is an old tombstone. The name written on it is Goggarty from Castlebellingham. Its date is 1719.
There is also an old cross which is three hundred years old. A bishop was buried there.
Cappoge Church was once the parish church. The ruins still remain
It is said that Cromwell's soldiers levelled it, in their campaign against the Roman Catholic Church.
The present church was consecrated about 1879 and it is a mortuary chapel erected Dease O'Reilly late of Dee Farm(continues on next page)
