School: Fahan (roll number 14479)
- Location:
- Fahan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 393
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- (continued from previous page)There are lots of old gravestones in the old graveyard. One is the cross of St. Mura which is seven feet high. There are arms coming from the sides. The west side has two figures in robes. One of the edges has a cutting in Greek. It is "Glory to the Father." There are four flat stones where priests were buried in the seventh century. A tomb belongs to Colonel Richard Sampson 1632. Another one belongs to George Vaughan. There is the tomb of Agnes Jones 1808, and another one of Horatio Nelson, nephew of Lord Nelson. People for far away still bury in both grounds. There are two stones in the wall of the graveyard. One is a Greek Cross, and the other is a wishing stone. St. Mura's Abbey has been used as a graveyard since the seventh century.
- Collector
- David Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebane, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 34
- Address
- Tievebane, Co. Donegal
