School: Rahan (B.)

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1. The Old Graveyards (continued)

   

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   within the ruin in the churchyard. There is one old disused Graveyard in the parish. It is beside the new Graveyard. A stone wall in which there is a style divides the two Graveyards. This Graveyard is in the townland of Rahan. The people do remember people been buried in the old Graveyard. Unbaptised children were buried near the old Graveyard, in a place for their selves.
   I never heard what the Graveyard was called that unbaptised children were buried in. These Graveyards are not used now. There was a man going home one night late. As he was passing by the Graveyard he saw a black man passing the far side of the gate. he did not mind that, but he went into the field that is beside the Graveyard to count the cattle. He got very tired and he went to the Graveyard to go to sleep, he went to sleep on a tomb stone. He awoke at three o clock the next morning then he got

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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

   Kevin Cullen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tullybeg, Co. Offaly

   Informant

   Mrs Cullen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tullybeg, Co. Offaly