School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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   “There is an old graveyard on Mr Byrne's land (Doonooney Adamstown, Co Wexford).”

   

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   stone and brought it back unbroken to the graveyard.
   It is still to be seen there.
   When all the head stones were taken away, the lands were ploughed and corn sown there
   Before they were finished sowing the corn the horses died.
   The corn grew in the form of graves, and a path around each grave of corn.
   The people were very frightened at this, but still they did not stop digging in it.
   They dug up some bones, and put them in a ditch round the graveyard.
   The ditch was there for some time, Mr Patrick Jordan, now deceased, was making some repairs on the ditch, and it is said, that when he stuck his pick into the ditch something began to whistle and buzz inside, and he ran away.

   The pick is still in the ditch, but it is covered up with clay and stones, and cannot now be seen.

   In the graveyard there was an old chapel.
   This chapel was thrown down, and its stones built the chapel, which now stands in Adamstown (Bantry Co Wexford)

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
            1. graveyards (~2,501)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Cleary

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Doonooney, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   John Lacey

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Coolnagree, Co. Wexford