School: Clochar na Trócaire, Longphort (roll number 12942)
- Location:
- Longford, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr M. Aloysius
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0767, Page 171
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“There are four graveyards that I know of in our parish...”
(continued from previous page)shaped and are all in use. There are old ruins in Bally Mac Cormack and Clondra graveyards. The tombs and crosses are made of stone, marb and a few old ones are made of wood.
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“When St Brigid was going to visit an old sick lady.”
When St Brigid was going to visit an old sick lady, she was walking along the road and gathering rushes to make a cross to bring it to the old lady. Pieces of the rushes are kept to this day as relics of St Brigid. Her feast day is held on the first day of February.