School: Dunlavin (B.)

Location:
Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Gogáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 101

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 101

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Dunlavin (B.)
  2. XML Page 101
  3. XML “Old Graveyards”
  4. XML “Old Graveyards”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    very dear to them. The palm tree is an evergreen tree, and by those trees the people who had lost their friend wished to let their dead friend know that no matter what happened them, they would never forget their dead friend.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. There are six graveyards in this parish.
    Three Catholic and three Protestant. They are situated in the townland of Tournant, Tober, Boherboy, these are the Catholic graveyard. The Protestant are situated in Boherboy, and the other two in Dunlavin.
    All these are in use except the "Old Protestant Graveyard", it is closed for the last fifty years. Tournant and Tober graveyards will soon be closed as they are full. All of them are square.
    There are no ruins of a church in any of them except in the centre of "Tober
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Collector
    Michael Carey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow