Graveyard stories

[ardmhachaabu]

Anyone heard the story about a grave beside the cathedral in Armagh city of a fella who was shot by the Black and Tans whose grave was noticeable because there were patches in the soil which never grew grass on it and, so the story goes, the barren patches correspond to the places he was shot?

[ONeill]

There are barren patches on my lawn. I'm pretty sure the man I buried there wasn't shot.

I remember scrubbing a gravestone at night. Twas peaceful.

[muppet]

There are barren patches on my lawn. I'm pretty sure the man I buried there wasn't shot.

I remember scrubbing a gravestone at night. Twas peaceful.

I always wondered what you might have got up to of a night before the internet.

[The Watcher Pat]

Three Irishmen, Paddy, Sean, and Seamus, were stumbling home from the pub late one night, and found themselves on a road which led past the old graveyard.

"Come have a look over here," says Paddy. "It's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul. He lived to the ripe old age of 87."

"That's nothing," says Sean. "Here's one named Patrick O'Toole. Says here that he was 95 when he died."

Just then, Seamus yells out, "Good God! Here's a fella that's 145!"

"What was his name?" asks Paddy.

Seamus stumbles around a bit, awkwardly lights a match to see what else is written on the stone marker, and exclaims, "Miles, from Dublin

[muppet]

Three Irishmen, Paddy, Sean, and Seamus, were stumbling home from the pub late one night, and found themselves on a road which led past the old graveyard.

"Come have a look over here," says Paddy. "It's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul. He lived to the ripe old age of 87."

"That's nothing," says Sean. "Here's one named Patrick O'Toole. Says here that he was 95 when he died."

Just then, Seamus yells out, "Good God! Here's a fella that's 145!"

"What was his name?" asks Paddy.

Seamus stumbles around a bit, awkwardly lights a match to see what else is written on the stone marker, and exclaims, "Miles, from Dublin

Them boys must have been in Ballyvary then.