School: Coolfancy, Tinahely

Location:
Cúil na Fuinse, Co. Chill Mhantáin
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 016

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    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
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 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
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. Account from Mr. James Maher, Hillbrook, Tinahely
    There 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
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
        1. séadchomharthaí (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Baile Uí Cheallaigh, Co. Chill Mhantáin
    Informant
    Mr James Maher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Sruthán an Chnoic Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin