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School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)

Location:
Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 064

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    When I was a girl about fourtheen years of age, there were lessons in my sixth book on the Christian antiqcuties of Ireland. And in going through the graves in the church yard, I noticed the gothic arch for the first time, though I had passed in and out there several times before.
    I came to the conclusion, that there must be three or four feet of the door-way buried in the earth. For the church-yard is really four or five feet higher than the surrounding field. I searched around the walls, under the ivy, to see could I find anything else remarkable, and found a long narrow slit in the wall, with a wide splay inward, in the south-wall. There was no way in which glass could
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Annie Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    71
    Address
    Cloneen, Co. Tipperary