School: Moyrhee, Ruan
- Location:
- Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Laoise de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 322
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- (continued from previous page)now. It is up in a hill and you would have to cross a little wood to get to it.
The Moor is also an old grave yard and there is no one from this locality buried there now.
The Coill is a very old grave yard and there were a lot of people buried there. There is a field near the Coill called Gort na pléisce 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 a ruin of an old church in the Moor and it is said that St. Colman used to come there to say mass and he used to come in an underground passage.
- Collector
- Patrick Considine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
