School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An Br. D. C. Ó hÉilighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 395
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- Down in the lonely grave-yard of Carrig lie the remains of Tom Kearney, God rest his soul. There was a Protestant, James Jinkins who lived in a place near Bellmount. This man was a pal of Tom's and a great one at that. One day as they were in the church yard an argument started up between them over something and a fight was fought between them. And after a while James got a rock off one of the graves and with all his strength he threw it at Tom, hoping that it would kill him instantly, and so it did. And it is said that in the grave from which the stone was taken a golden plate bearing the name "Tom Kearney", and along with it a little statue of St Nicholas which was also of gold and a little box, which it is said, when opened, contained nothing but pure gold and silver.It is said that these treasures were put there when the great man Thomas Barry was being buried. Tom Kearney was at the funeral that day and got permission from the priest to put treasures there and they were never touched until a week after he was killed, by that man whose body is now in Crossly's field which is next to the graveyard.
- Collector
- Thomas Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
