School: Leamh-choill
- Location:
- Drumsillagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Ghadhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)48. Homeless Friars. Priests suffered great hardship at the hands of Coote and other English army officials. The heroism of a young girl who suffered herself to be tied to a horse's tail and dragged along to Oakport until the head was severed from her body, is often recalled. Men put their sticks in a high bank & spread their coats over them to form a canopy for the blessed sacrament.
O'Carolan the last of the bards lies buried with the McDermot Roe Family in the old church in Kilronan Graveyard Keadue.
This graveyard, however, is 8 miles from this school.
49. Local Church and graveyards.
The present local church is in Cootehall. Previous to the creation of Cootehall chapel, the people went to mass to Ardearne, which is now in the possession of Protestants.
Some local family burial grounds are in Ardcarne, others in Killucon, others in Killealla (near Cloigne).
the churchyards are not round in shape. Tuamna is almost a square.
Killucon is square shaped also and numbers of trees and shrubs grow there.
Ardcarne is the largest graveyard. There was a new plot attached within recent years.
The last man who was buried in Tuamna was Jim Leech.
When natives of this district die in America, one old man maintains that he often saw their spirits like foam descending over Tuamna graveyard.
