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School: Banagher (B.)

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Banagher, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Maoilchéire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 370

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    An Old Cemetery
    There is a very old cemetery in Banagher. It is about six hundred years old. There are a large number of people buried in it. There are about nine old people still to be buried in it around Banagher. There are about forty very old Tombstones in it and there is also one Vault belonging to the Armstrong family there. There is also a very old Molloy family buried in the old Cemetery who erected the marble Altar. There is the ruins of an old church still to be seen in the old Cemetery,
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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
    Informant
    Frank Tiquin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    71
    Address
    Taylor's Cross, Co. Offaly