School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)
- Location:
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)the dead returning in order to see that certain things they had forgotten to do were carried out. It was firmly believed that the dead could return.Catholics and non-Catholics are buried in Dungourney graveyard. Catholics in one half, non-Catholics in the other. Headstones more than a century ago were very rare, and great numbers buried there have nothing to mark the place or give a name.
