School: An Chlais Mhór, Eóchaill (roll number 2889)
- Location:
- Clashmore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Liam Suipéal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 388
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- The Penal Laws were very severe long ago, especially on priests. They could not say mass in a public Church. They used have to say it out in the woods and in caves. There is a cave somewhere out on the mountain near a place called Glenbeg. The priest of the locality used to come to that cave to say mass. While some of the people would be hearing mass, more of them would be watching the soldiers. When the priests would go out during the day, they would have to dress in working man's clothes for fear of detection. A person who informed on a priest was called a 'priest-hunter'. There was a sum of thirty or forty pounds given to any person who would bring the head of a priest to the government.
- Collector
- Christina R. Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clashmore, Co. Waterford
