School: Ross (roll number 12789)
- Location:
- Ross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0718, Page 045
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- (continued from previous page)When the monks lived on the Island their cemetery there was strictly confined to priests and monks. One of the O'Reillys "The Lord of Ross Castle" took a strange notion to be buried in the Friars' graveyard and before his death, in violation of the Friars' rights, he gave instructions that his body should be laid to rest on Church Island.The Lord of Ross died during a severe frost and his burial procession headed by a vested priest walked over the frozen lake. But they never reached Church Island.. When half way across the ice broke and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cullendragh, Co. Meath
