School: Fairche, Cill Dairbhre (roll number 6834)
- Location:
- An Fhairche, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Mac Fheorais
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- There are made old graveyards in my district. There is a graveyard in Faraghy and a protestant church. The graveyard is a fairly large one and both catholics and protestants are buried there. There is a special place for the protestants underneath the church. Only the Bowen Court family and a few others are buried in this plot. In Mologa there is an old graveyard. There is a holy well there and many people visit the well for it is believed to cure sore eyes and other diseases There is a very old graveyard in Monanimy about which there is a an old story not very long ago a very poor man lived near the graveyard. One day he had no fire and his wife told him to go into the graveyard and bring out a donkey cart of the old rotten coffin boards. He(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Thancaird, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Thancaird, Co. Chorcaí