School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- About fifty years ago men digging on the lands now occupied by Mrs John Kehoe found some urns filled with human bones. The urns were of different sizes some very small and some about the size of an ordinary pail or can.
In the same field or grave-hole were found graves made of stone. In one of these graves were the bones of a person of huge size.
Some six years ago the present owner allowed sand to be taken from the same place by road men(continues on next page)