School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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- (continued from previous page)is no tomb stone in Drumkeerin. Of course there are lots of head stones also. I don't know the dates that are on these. They are ornamented. Crosses are cut out of the stones and figures of flowers are also on them. Some are made of wood. Some people are buried within the ruins in Kilbride and Curraghs. There are two priests buried inside in Drumkeerin Chapel. There are no disused graveyards in the parish. Unbaptised children are buried in the ordinary graveyards. On Inch Island in Lough Allen there is an old graveyard and it is said that there was a stone on it and it used to come to the shores for the corpse. Bad people who were said to be protestants put a dead dog in a coffin and put it on the stone. The stone sank and it was never seen more. Local families use graveyards that are further distant than the parish graveyarde. In Curraghs graveyard no person bearing the name Flynn may stand on the grave of an(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letter, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Loughlin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brockagh Upper, Co. Leitrim