School: Cor na Gaoithe (roll number 7495)
- Location:
- Cornageeha, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)(b) Another version about this celebrated stone Altar, is, that it is a remnant of Penal - days, - when the Mass had to be celebrated in secret.In connection with the first version - I forgot to mention that the name of the Parish priest in charge of the two parishes was a Fr. Brian McGriskin, and that a Chalice bearing his name is still in use in this Diocese.
- In the townland of Corracastle there are three Forts situated on three different hills.Two of these are the same size, but the other is considerably smaller.The old people in the neighbourhood believe that these mounds of earth were thrown up round dwelling-houses to protect the dwellers from wild animals which roamed the lands in these distant days. This is the tradition as far(continues on next page)
