There are only two graveyards in the Parish of Mohill. One of these is the Catholic graveyard, and it is situated alongside Saint Anne's Convent grounds. Part of it is old and part of it new. It is said that the old Parish Church of Mohill stood at, or near the former portion. It is of angular shape, and there are two entrances from the road, one leading to the old portion, and the other to the new portion. In the old part there are some ancient

Only a few old people in this parish know a few words of Irish. There is a great dearth of old traditions which are so common in the Gaeltacht. I could find no traces of old stories like the Sceálta Fiannuideachta. Nothing of that sort exists except ghost stories. No old ballads in English are remembered. Only a very few in Parish can play any sort of musical instrument and very few can do anything in the way of step-dancing. Among the old generation - those who are now about 70 years there were some very good dancers and flute-players. The flute-playing was a relic of a rather good local fife and drum band in the Land League days.
The parish is an example of a district in which the old Gaelic Culture is dead and nothing has taken its place.
The land of the parish is practically all fertile. Many of the farms are large -from 70 to 120 acres. I believe districts of this type are not the best for sticking on to old customs etc.SÉAMUS O'MAOLCHATHAIGH
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There is a great dearth of oral tradition in this parish compared with the parish of Newcastle which bounds it in the south. It appears to me that all the old traditions in this parish went with the Irish language.There are hardly any bits of tradition about Cromwell or Father Sheehy for example, whereas I heard several stories about them among the Irish speakers in Newcastle parish. I believe these traditions are disappearing in Newcastle parish too among those who speak only English.The absence of anything in the shape of old Fairy stories etc. from this note book is not due to not looking for them. I simply could find none. I heard a great story from an old man about a supernatural hound. I thought I had a "find" until I found out he had read it in "Ireland's Own".

There are ruins of a few old castles in the parish of Aughagower. There is one in the village of Mountbrown in the parish of Aughagower and in the county of Mayo. This castle belonged to a man whose name was Dennis Brown and he used to hang people in it. There are ruins of an old church in the village of Aughagower. There is an old round tower beside it. There is also the ruins of an old church in the village of Ayle in the parish of Aughagower.

The only Holy Well in the Parish is in the Townland of Aughawillan - sheet XXX.14 of the 25" scale. Tradition says this well was in Bredagh formerly, just across a fence and at present 99% of the people of the locality will say that the well is in BREDAGH. They never say AUGHAWILLAN. These old people say that woman washed clothes in the well and that next morning it had gone across the boundary fence. However this may be it is now in Aughawillan. The story of the washing of the clothes was told to the writer more than 30 years ago by an old man, James Quinn of Bredagh who was then over 70 years. He is dead now.
He also told me that St Patrick came from Tubberpatrick in the Parish of Dromard which is in North Longford and of which Fr Brody is the present Parish Priest. This Tubberpatrick is partly North west of Legga Chapel and not far from Rossan N.S. Between Tubberpatrick, in Dromard and Tubberpatrick in Aughawilllan WAS a holy well, now filled up with stones, just beside Beaghmore N.S. Parish of Carrigallen and on the lands of John Doherty. I taught for 8 years in Beaghmore N.S. but never heard the old people associate this old well with St. Patrick. Yet I am told that on an old map found in the residence of Patrick Brody Tully Carrigallen it is marked as "St Patrick's Well". A very old man, Dan Kiernan,(over)

I will give further accounts of these cemeteries at a later stage, but I only want here to show how the name of the parish changed. In the school books the school is situated in the parish of Kilquane, & that is the only occasion I have come across it, although the school is built in the village and at the end removed from the cemetery called Kilquane. Of course the present school is not the old building, neither is it built on the site of the old building. The present school was built in 1887 about fifty yards removed from the site of the old building, & on the eastern side of the Road. The teachers house is built on the site of the old building.
The old school-house was a two-storey building, & was the only school in the neighbourhood that can be remembered by the old people, in fact all the people of sixty years or over received their instruction within its walls.
The portion of the parish with which I'm directly brought in contact with consists of a number of town-lands as well as the village. I say a number of town-lands, as these are very clearly defined by the inhabitants, in coming to mass on Sunday

The name of my home district is Garrykennedy which is very nicely situated by the shores of Lough Derg through which the lordly Shannon flows. It is in the parish of Castle-town Arra. There are roughly three hundred and thirty seven families in this parish and something over one thousand people. The names of some of the people in this parish are very common such as the Ryan's and Gleesons. These of course had to have nick names in order to distinguish between them. The usual type of houses in my town-land is a three roomed house covered with slates and a few thatched houses. There are old types of houses built with clay and stone. Garrykennedy is as the name implies a nice quaint old place. It was Kennedys garden before the houses were built and the trees planted. There are two harbours in it the new and the old. On the very quay there is a portion of an old castle standing about seventy feet high.

"Begobs" was the name of an old man who visited this parish about fifty

Parish of Grange
Part of the united parishes of Ardfinnan, Grange and Ballybacon, situated west of St Mary's Parish, Clonmel
In olden times the present parish of Grange was made up of two parishes Tullaghmelan and Derrygrath. The ruin of an old church with graveyard in which burials are still made in each of these places. The two old churches were about 3 Irish miles apart. The townlands in which the ruins of the old churches are situated are still called the old parish names, Derrygrath and Tullaghmelan.
The original thatched chapel in Grange was built about half-way between the old churches. The present church was built i 1829 and local tradition has it that the old chapel was left standing inside the present church until the roof was on it.
There was a strong tradition of the two old parishes in Grange until recent times. There were two gates going into he chapel yard, one on the North and the other on the South side. About 50 years ago the parish priest ordered the south gate to be locked on Sundays to facilitate the penny collection and some of the parishioners

old ruins, of houses in the Parish.

the only visible evidence of past history connected with this once Holy Edifice.
The walls which once surrounded the church.are in ruins part of the end wall facing the Fast is still standing. also the remains of a divisional wall which shows that two compartments were once in existence.there. This old' church measures about seventy feet by fourteen feet this old church was formerly one of four parishes which made up the parish of Castletown-Delvin. Revd, Father Eneas Penny parish priest of Killough.was slain at the altar of this his church by the order of Queen Elizabeth. - 1584.Another church in Delvin Parish called Killkenna long since decayed, and latterly deserted as a place of burial, This old church yard Killkenna is situated in a bog. The bog of Bracklyn. The entrance is from the road leading from Delvin to Ballivor, the old Church has been uprooted and cattle roam and transgress on the sacred resting place of the dead. In this old church-yard sleep many members of the "Fetherston Family." This resting place is surrounded by a wall.and asmall entrance by a gate.

of them are still in use. The graveyard in Coolamber is square and the graveyard in Streete is round and the one in Boherquill is also round. There is an old church in Coolamber graveyard and it is in ruins. The graveyard is level. The graveyard contains a lot of very old tombs and crosses. The crosses are made of limestone. There are some people buried within the ruin in the churchyard. There are no disused graveyards in this parish. The unbaptized children are buried in the cemetery. Some families do not get buried at home in their own parish. They get buried in another parish such as Abbeylara and Russagh. They get buried where their ancestors were buried. There is supposed to be a tunnel going from the old castle in Coolamber to the old church in Coolamber graveyard.

There is one old graveyard in this parish; it is situated in the townland of Cornabeagh. Tradition has it that there was a catholic church in that old graveyard, although there are no ruins of a church in it now. All the old people say that their parents remember the time that there was a church there, and the name of that church was The Church of Sheridan's Hill.
The reason it got its name was, the most common name in the parish was Sheridan's. There were two bishops buried in that old graveyard, and their names were Bishop O'Reilly, and Bishop Alwill, and there is a coat of arms on Bishop Alwill's tombstone. There are many people who live outside the parish and who bury in the old graveyard still.

he was succeeded by Fr. Prendergast, of the Barony [of] Forth. This priest got the present Church built about 1859. It was open for worship in Oct. 1860. The old church was demolished, & the stones built the present wall round the graveyard & the priest's lawn. Fr. Prendergast was waking [?] in the church on the Sunday on which he was to have celebrated Mass, & he was succeeded by Father - later Canon Peter Barry.
Davidstown parish made up of:- St John's (formerly a parish) part of Clonmore, Rossdroit, Templescoby. Churches at all these places were suppressed during the Penal Times.
Townlands of the ancient Parish of St. Johns now in Davidstown are:- Ballinapierce, Bloomfield, Knockmarshal, Lucas Park, Moneyhore, Monfin, St. John's, Sweetfarm, Tomduff, & Tomnalosset.
The portion of the old parish of Clonmore now Davidstown parish Ballinavarry, Ballyelland, Bridgetown, Clough, Garr, Stoneypark, & parts of Wilton.
Rossdroit:- graveyard & Protestant church still here. Last interment about 2 years ago. Ruins of Catholic Church still there. Dates on tombstones go back to 1562, 1564 . .
Townlands in the old parish & still in Parish of Davidstown - Ballygillistown, Ballyknockan, Boolabawn, Collamurry, Davidstown, Moneyhore, Rathnure, all the parish of Templescoby including Clohass, Dunsinane, Jamestown, Templescoby & Tobermore.
Templescoby:- no trace of the old church - "not a stone", not a fragment". The site of the Church & graveyard are pointed out in the field now "Furlong's old town". My grandmother R.I.P. who died 1926 says she remembers old headstones & crosses (says Pat

The name of the town land in which I reside is Drumineal. It is situated in the parish of Keash which is called the half parish of Culfadda. There are about ten families and forty eight people in my District. The most common names of these family names is McGowan. Some of the houses in my District are thatched and more are slated. My townland got its name from a clever old police man. Long ago there was an old man much like a tramp passing the road. The police man knew that the old man was well educated so he put a few questions in Irish to the old man and he answered them. The police man asked him what was Drumineal in English. The old man said "the back of the Corran" so that is how my town land got its

There are only two graveyards in the Parish of Mohill. One of these is the Catholic graveyard and it is situated alongside Saint Anne's Convent grounds. Part of it is old and part of it is new and it is said that the old Parish church of Mohill stood at or near the former portion. It is of angular shape and there are two entrances - one leading to the old portion and the other leading to the new portion. In the old part there are some ancient tombstones, monuments and slabs while those in the new part are of modern or semi-modern designs and as may be understood it is in this part most of the burials take place.

In the southern end of this parish in an old churchyard stands the ruins of an old church called Cloonmorris with an

Old Graveyards.
There are many old graveyards all over the country. There is an old graveyard in the parish of Dysart about five miles away. This graveyard has not been used for about seven years. There is another graveyard in the parish of Calton. There are old head-Stones and writing on them that cannot be made. This old graveyard has not been there for a long time.

In the parish of Rathmore a graveyard called the old Chapel is situated. My grandmother Mrs Johanna Cahill, Gneeveguilla informed me last night that it was near this graveyard the old Church was situated long ago before the present Church was built. Canon Walsh had some of the material removed from the old Church, the year 1888 or 89. There is another graveyard in this parish called Nohoval. This is a very holy graveyard, as my grandmother told me that it removed from where it was first situated, somewhere near Ballydesmond to where it is now. It is a very old one and there are a great number of people buried there. It is supposed that it will be soon closed, as it is getting overcrowded.

In my Parish (Borrisokane) there are three Graveyards. There are two in Borrisokane namely the "Old Graveyard" and the "New Cemetery" there is one situated at Aglish (about three miles to the north side of Borrisokane) and this is called "Aglish Churchyard". Both the "Old Churchyard" at Borrisokane and the Aglish Churchyard are situated near Protestant Churches. There are no ruined churches in the vicinity of any of the Graveyards. In the Aglish Churchyard there are some very old tombstones and crosses some of them about two hundred years old, the majority of the monuments are tombstones. There is one derelict graveyard in my district and that is situated at Borrisokane Workhouse. The inhabitants of the Workhouse used to be buried there. Local people still go to certain graveyards though not in their Parish, they call this the "family burial ground". Unbaptised children used to be buried in forts.

There are the ruins of an old castle in Newstone the last person that lived there was Mr Mc Gourish it is built five hundred years and I do not know who built; It is in the Parish of Drumcondrath in the townland of Newstone and the Barony of Slane Lower and in Co. Meath.
There is a portion of an old castle at Magheracloy in the parish of Magheracloy and the Barony of Farney Co Monaghan,
Over the doors and windows of the castle, there is some very beautiful carving;
On the top of the castle there are two battle towers from which it could be defended in case of attack; There are also dungeons in which prisoners were kept, In Drumbridge graveyard there are the ruins of an old church; The holy water stones are there yet; and on them there are flowers carved. This church is about six hundred years old; The way it was destroyed was the time there were plunderers in the country and it was burned, it is in the Parish of Drumconrath and the Barony of Slane Lower in Meath, In the kitchen of Magheracloy castle there is a dresser which is three hundred years old. On the front of the dresser there are four lions beautifully