School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

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1. The Old Catholic Church of Kells

   

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   The old R.C Church was situated in the ash grove, that was at the back of the tennis courts. The entrance to it was the present entrance in Wallace’s coal yard. A few old people remember having heard holy mass there. They are old Bawthy or Balthy Smith also known as Tom the Bawthy, Maurice Swift and Tom Fields. All these are deceased R.I.P. The present Catholic Church was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philomena Usher

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

2. The Straying Sod

   

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   Unbaptised children were sometimes buried in a garden or in the corner of a field; and sometimes they were buried outside the graveyard or buried in the graveyard in a special corner of their own.

   The place where an unbaptised child was buried was called “the straying sod”.
   If you ashamed to step on this sod at night you would lose your way, and you

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