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   A strange story is told of a man whose remains were buried on the roadside outside this cemetery long ago. His name was *Billy O Rourke and lived between the Poles and Kilmainhamwood. He was born a Catholic and turned Protestant and finally he had no religion. He was nicknamed the "Yellow boy's Sire". He tried to drown himself but his nerve failed him and he afterwards committed suicide by hanging himself.
   He was buried in the Catholic's graveyard in Kilmainhamwood, but that night the Catholic's came and lifted him and threw the coffin across the ditch and let it roll down the glen. It was then brought and buried in the Protestant graveyard in Mullinavalley, but the Protestants would not have him there and his remains were again lifted and left on the road outside where he was afterwards buried beside a big tree. This tree is on the graveyard ditch and is beside Thomas Hyne's field and just above the forge or Mullinavalley.

   Note:- * Some say he was named O Brien and was born between Nobber and Castletown in County Meath (Complier)

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
            1. graveyards (~2,501)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Clarke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mullaghavally, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Peter Clarke

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   58

   Address

   Mullaghavally, Co. Meath