Old Graveyards

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there are two graveyards in this district.  One of them is a very old graveyard.  It is situated in the townland of Shraduff.  The other graveyard is only opened since nineteen hundred and twelve.

There are tomb-stones and head-stones in the old graveyard.  They are covered with moss and grass.  There is a head

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stone erected by Bridget McHugh Clonadron in remembrance of her husband Michael who died on the 12th September 1900 also her two sons Patrick and Michael R.I.P.

There is also another head-stone on which these words are inscribed, 'O Lord have mercy on the soul of Daniel Flynn who died 1st August 1886.  May perpetual light and eternal glory shine on the souls of those who lie here below'.  There is a tomb-stone erected over Pat Keogh's family who lived in Chapel Street long ago.  These are the words inscribed on it 'Oh Lord have mercy on those deposed beneath this tomb stone, William Keogh and Denis Keogh, R.I.P.'  There is one over Patrick Brooks who died on the 10th November 1852, also his wife Honora, also their son Patrick, erected by their son Michael R.I.P.

Oh Lord have mercy on the soul of Teady Glennon who died on the

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26th December 1855 also his wife Maria, also Ann Glennon Esker erected by their son Teady.  R.I.P.

There is a tomb-stone erected over Peter Finneran Killeglan who died December 30th 1871, also his wife Catherine who died 1889.  

The other graveyard is situated in the townland of Glananea.  It is opened only since nineteen hundred and twelve.  It is kept in repair by Bernard Dolan.

There are several 'lisheens' in the district where unbaptised children were buried.  There are several of them around about.  There is a big one above in Bellfield.  They say there was a man named Flynn from Cloncoran who was watching rabbits early in the morning.  Two men on horseback came to the 'liss' they had a girl on the horse also.  When the man saw them he drew near and they asked him to hold the horse.  When the man took the

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horse he let the horse go and he kept the girl.  

Written by 
Rosie Moore

Information obtained from
Thomas Finneran
Dundonnell
Taughmaconnell