School: Clareen, Birr

Location:
Clareen, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 300

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 300

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  1. The people buried their dead in the old graveyard around the old monastery and some do to the present day. The present cemetery was opened when the new church was built and is on the site of the old Catholic Church. It is remarked that whenever there is one funeral to the old churchyard there are three. The Protestant Church is inside the walls of the graveyard.
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  2. One stone in the old graveyard has the Irish inscription Or do Cearbhall. It is a Celtic cross.
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  4. In Lent many people gave up smoking as an act of mortification. At Easter children got up early on Easter Sunday to see the sun dancing. A goose or something else a hen perhaps is killed on St. Martin's Day and a michaelmas goose is killed.
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