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   “I heard a very interesting story from a man in the neighbourhood concerning an ancient disused churchyard in Kilcornan.”

   

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   I heard a very interesting story from a man in the neighbourhood concerning an ancient disused churchyard in Kilcornan. In former times a road led to it but it is long since closed up and a trace of it scarcely remains. In it was buried Morragh a wizard who performed wonderful feats in his day. On one occasion he had a fight with another man who pulled off one of his arms and he joined it to himself again. About eighty years ago the church yard fell into disuse and a neighbouring farmer levelled off the graves and took away the tomb stones, some of the latter may still be seen as lintels over door-ways. The surface of the field is still quiet black. The first year it was a garden and they dug one big potatoe closely resembling a human

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
            1. graveyards (~2,501)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloghaready, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Patrick Tobin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Scrag, Co. Limerick