School: Moyrhee, Ruan
- Location:
- Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Laoise de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)about a mile from the school the people of Tubber are buried there and there is a Blessed Well near it and it is supposed to cure sore eyes
The Coill is another graveyard it is called the Coill because you have to get to it.
The Moor is a graveyard near the Coill but there are not many people buried there. The Coill is a very old graveyard and there were a lot of people buried there. There is a field near the Coill called Gort na pleisce or fleisce and there was a battle fought there long ago and there was a lot of people killed there and they were buried in the Coill During the famine a lot of people died of hunger and they were buried there.
The Moor. There is the ruin of an old church in the Moor and it is said that St. Colman used to come to say mass there in an underground passage
- Collector
- Frank Cahir
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromeen, Co. Clare
