School: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (roll number 16250)

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1. Local Monuments (continued)

   

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   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.

   

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2. Old Graves

   

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   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

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Joe Meara

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Michael Meara

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male