School: Coolfancy, Tinahely
- Location:
- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)briars. The ruins area about a field from the road and a laneway leads to the graveyard. There is a style in the laneway.Teresa and Kevin Rawson, Coolafancy
- One of the trees in the graveyard at Crosspatrick grows inside the old ruins. The door appears to have been where this tree grows. The tree grows over a head stone which cannot be read because the trunk of the tree covers the inscription.Teresa Rawson, Coolafancy, Tinahely
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- Teresa Rawson
- Gender
- Female
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- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Account from Mr. James Maher, Hillbrook, TinahelyThere is an old legend about Crosspatrick which says that when St. Patrick visited Wicklow on his way to Croghan he stood on the stile of Crosspatrick graveyard and viewed the country all around and said "the plague or famine would never come on that stretch of land".Bridget Murphy, Ballykelly
