Scoil: Ballinkillen, Muine Beag

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Cahir na gCapall (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   ago some young men found the entrance to this cave & after going in some distance found a cavern strewn with bones, some much larger than others, presumably animal bones.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

2. Funeral Custom at Roiligín

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   At the roiligin field mentioned already there was a platform raised a few feet from field level. The reason was as follows - funerals from surrounding districts going to the church graveyard, used leave the coffin containing the deceased person on this platform for ten minutes to pay a last visit at the ancient worshipping place. This was a local custom in which the clergy did not interfere until unforseen causes did away with the custom altogether. Two roads converge on this roiligín & both are downhill. One day two funerals approached, one on each road. The sighted one another & immediately quickened pace to see who'd be there first. The pace grew into a trot & so into gallop, but both arrived together. An argument started as to which coffin should go on the platform first

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Redmond

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Baile an Choillín, Co. Cheatharlach