School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0118
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- There are three graveyards in the parish. There is one in Kilconly, and two in Kilbannon. People are buried in two of them yet. They are shaped square. The are level. Trees grow in them. There are old tombs and old crosses in them. There is an unused graveyard in Kilbannon.
There is an old ruin of a chapel in Kilbannon There are people buried in the ruin.
There is a story relating how the Kilconly grave yard was made. The time of the famine people were buried in the fields. One time people were burying a man and the corpse was brought in a gennit cart. While the people were digging the grave the gennit ran away. he did not stop until he came to Kilconly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissananny, Co. Galway
- Informant
- David Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Lissananny, Co. Galway
