School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 255
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- There are three churchyards in the parish one in Clongeen another in Faree and another in Ballylannon and they are all still used for burials. Up in Quigley's field in Faree there are walls of an old Church in the middle of the graveyard and there are yew tress growing in it. In the Ballylannon graveyard there are trees [walls] all around it and there is a river flowing down under it. There is a vault in the middle of it where all the Leigh's were buried. They were large landowners, and had thousands of acres of land in this locality. Many of the Leigh family were buried here in he vault, which is always locked. There is a man buried in it whose age on the tombstone is 104 years. There are walls of a church in Ballylannon also and the "Pattern Day is the 29th of June each year. It is not carried out on a large scale only some friends and relatives of deceased go on that day.
- Collector
- M. Butler
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Wexford
