School: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (roll number 16250)
- Location:
- Templetouhy, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Meadhra
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0546, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)At foulkescourt Co. Kilkenny are tombstones erected to the memory of the Helys and these bear quite inscriptions dealing with their lives deeds and when they died.
- There are many old graves in the Local graveyard's, but the most important of them, are marked by queer sorts of tombstones "cairns" and "dolmens". A dolmen is shaped something like a table - a large flat stone on which the persons, name address, and the date of his birth and death are inscribed, resting on four square stones. A Cairn is a small heap of stones placed over the grave. There are no cairns around this locality, but in the local graveyard there are four dolmens(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Meara
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Meara
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
