School: Scoil an Chlochair, Bunclody
- Location:
- Bunclody, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- 82Graveyards.There are four or five graveyards in this Parish. There is one disused graveyard a few yards away from the R.C. Church and a new graveyard about a mile and a half from the Parish church. There is an old and a new graveyard in Kilmyshall. There is an old Reilig also in this Parish.
There is a story told about a graveyard when the people called
"Sackemups" were going about.
About sixty years ago when a corpse would be buried the friends of the dead person would have to sit up for eight or nine nights so that the
"Sackemups" could not take the corpse.
At a certain time in the turf drawing from Knockanana when the turf drawers were coming past Kilcommon graveyard, there was a corpse after being buried there in a vault. One of the turf drawers remained in the "pub" longer than the others. His name was Larry Lamb of Moteybower in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Phelim Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Wexford
