School: Kilmuckridge
- Location:
- Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: L. Mac Donnell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0887, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)and forming a sort of Island in the field. The field itself is very marshy + boggy and perhaps it is for this reason that the "raised" burial ground was first used. There is evidently some close connection between the Church - the Burial ground and the Holy Well of St Merkin or as it is now locally called "St McKeane's".The well is surrounded by trees + bushes - mostly ash trees and hawthorn bushes. Until lately there was no protection whatever for this saintly relic of a past age - it seemed as if it were to be doomed to sink away into oblivion - and be covered in by earth and undergrowth. Fortunaately about ten years ago the matter was taken(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Carberry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Litter Beg, Co. Wexford
