School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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- (continued from previous page)he took off his coat and turned it inside out, and at that moment he knew where he was. The greater number of the people call this graveyard ''Fhordín na Marbh'', but I do not why it is called so.In a very lonely place in the shade of a wood outside a place called Keadue, there is a square filed named ''Roilig Mumá''. At the time of the Famine it is said, that seven or eight mothers came from Carrick -on-Shannon to this field. They heard that there was plenty of potatoes in it so they started off walking trying to get a bit to eat for themselves and their children. When they reached their destination. everything in it was eaten. Words cannot explain the sorrow of these women then and it is said that they all died, and were all buried in one grave without a coffin or any covering on (-him-) them. This is why is was called ''Roilig Muná''.
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- Collector
- Esther Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mr Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Ros Comáin