School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0352, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)beating of a drum is heard coming for them There are beautiful crosses there some of them are made of wood and more of them are made of concrete. There is a disused graveyard in the townland or Rossacon in the parish of Kanturk there were people buried there the time of the famine. There is no one living at the present day that remembers it.
There is another one in Mill view known as the Paupers graveyard. Local families still use certain graveyards.
Clonfert is the only churchyard in Newmarket. There was an old church there long ago, but no trace of it can be seen now. There are many beautiful trees growing in Clonfert but palm trees are the most plentiful. There are very old dates on some of the Head-stones. The oldest date I saw there was 1810. All the old crosses are made of wood but the new ones are made of limestone and marble which are beautifully carved and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Morrissey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rossacon, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Morrissey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 36
- Address
- Rossacon, Co. Cork
