School: Cushinstown (roll number 3146)

Location:
Cushinstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Rita Dardis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 054

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 054

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  1. Owing to all the small churches there were in Ireland previous to the Penal Laws and the arrival of Cromwell there are many graveyards in the country now. Within these burial places you will nearly always see the ruins of a church monastery or convent and perhaps these buildings would still exist only for the destructive English soldiers and those whom laid waste religious establishments.
    The nearest local graveyard in Crossmacole is in the Townland of Cushenstown. People are still interred there.
    Inside its walls stand the ruins of an old chapel which was battered down by Cromwell's cannon and graves are to be seen inside the ruins. It is of oblong shape and here and there are headstones and momentoes of the dead for perhaps of centuries. Some of these stones are uninscribed and perhaps under them lie the undecayed bones of some great
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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
    Nicholas Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cushinstown, Co. Meath