School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 125

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 125

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  3. XML “The Old Catholic Church of Kells”
  4. XML “The Straying Sod”

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  1. 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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 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
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Usher
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12