School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab (2) (roll number 13976)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: J.W. Pollard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 495
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- (continued from previous page)stone on top of the tomb. The inscription is :- TO THE MEMORY OF JULIA ROBERTS WHO DIED 1ST OF 1808 AGED 13 YEARS. ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF MARGRET BARRY WHO DIED ON THE 30TH OF OCTOBER 1811 AGED 60 YEARS.
On St. Johns Eve people go to the tomb and leave, medals and bottles of holy water there. They pray for sick people in their house or for their friends and they think God would heal them Long ago the people used to stay in the graveyards all night praying but they do not stay only for about a half an haour [hour] now. People light fires on St. John's Eve now. When the people used to go to the graveyards long ago they used to light fires and make tea and have a good meal in the night. There are trees growing in the graveyard and on one side there is a big hedge of lilac and there is a grave behind the hedge and nobody knows who is buried there as it is called "the unknown grave".
There are people in the parish of Balldehob and their burying place is in Schull. and others have their buying place in the abbey near Sibbeneen and others in Aughadown and others in Kilcoe burying ground(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Essie Wolfe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stouke, Co. Cork
