School: Bridgetown, O'Brien's Bridge (roll number 5997)
- Location:
- Bridgetown, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eamonn Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0587, Page 163
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About a mile from the village of Bridgetown and near the road leading to Killaloe, is the very ancient burial-ground of Kilcredan. The burial-ground is rectangular in shape and is n area about an acre. Part of the walls of the ancient chirch are still to be seen, and the Holy Water Font of the old Church is still there. Two very old tomb-stones are in the Church-yard. They were hewn from a very hard slaty species of rock. They were erected almost one hundred and fifty ears ago, andthe inscriptions on them are still very legible.
There are not so many people butied in ilcredan of recent years, and the Church yard was planted with trees about fifty years ago, and(continues on next page)
