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School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan

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Cavan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sr. Carmel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 126

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    Here is an old story which is very familiar to every-one. In the old graveyard in lower Denn convenient to Drumavaddy Chapel. There lies a stone 5 cwt weight which in former years is supposed to have formed a table or a substitute for an altar which the priests used to say mass on in the Penal Days.It was a great fete in former years for the strongest men attending a funeral to try their skill to lift this stone. On one occasion a man named Michael Clarke of Crumlin made a bet he would carry the stone as far as the local public house a
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Smith
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Aghnaglogh, Co. Cavan