1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Carnadough (B.), Newtowncashel

School: Carnadough (B.), Newtowncashel

Location:
Cornadowagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
P. Eustace
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 385

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 385

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Carnadough (B.), Newtowncashel
  2. XML Page 385
  3. XML “Description of Local Graveyards”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Description of Local Graveyards

    Share Share Post
    In this district there are three graveyards, Cashel, Saints Island, and Rathcline. They are square in Shape and in Cashel and Rathcline there are the ruins of two old churches. Trees grow all round these graveyards and they them very lonely looking especially at night time. In graveyards there are monuments. Some of these are locally called headstones the are very ancient and the dates are made out. There are no people buried within the walls of these ruins. In Ballinamore not Long ago there was a graveyard close as it was not unfit for human burial. After a great fall of rain
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Padraig Ó Séagdha
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Cloonmee, Co. Longford
    Informant
    John Shea
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonmee, Co. Longford