School: Gráinleathan (C.) (roll number 15664)
- Location:
- Garranlahan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Uaithne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)O Burke's, there is a lovely tomb stone in it, and their names, are written in Ogham. There are five tombs in it, and the oldest belongs to Michael O Sulivan, who was buried in the year 1791. There is a head stone over every grave, and that, amounts to about two hundred. The grave yard got its name from a family of that lived there named Tully. In the house, there lived a man, his wife, and child. One day the man the man went visiting, and another man came, dressed in a woman's clothes, and asked for some bacon. She told him to get it, and seeing (it) the man was gone, he called some other men, to help, him. The woman ran in their room, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Page
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Roscommon
