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School: Leamh-choill

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Drumsillagh, Co. Roscommon
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Cáit Ní Ghadhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 053

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    Historical ruins in the neighbourhood
    1st July 1938
    Tumna. How solitary she now sits by the great river Shannon that once thronged place of worship. She is silent now with the silence of the dead. To the stranger who looks at it now, it represents nothing save the ruins of some small house or church.
    Yet Tumna was once great. It was once thronged by priests and nuns as well as great congregations of people who came there to worship God. At one time there was a church and graveyard there. The people used to bury their dead in this grave-yard and the tombstones which
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick J. O' Hara
    Gender
    Male