School: Trinity (roll number 2311)

Location:
Tincurra, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mrs Dereveux
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 165

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    turned on it, it turns back. A Protestant is said to have tried it, in opposition to the Parish Priest's orders, and the sod turned and his crop did not grow. A man took a tombstone from it once to make a trough.
    He left the making of the trough until morning. It the morning he found the tombstone gone and tho' he lived many miles from Youngstown it is said the tombstone was found in the graveyard in the same spot from which he had taken it.
    Some of the dates on the tombstones in Trinity graveyard are 1164 - 1648
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English