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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 036

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  1. The Penal Times (continued)

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    The priests and schoolmasters were banned and hunted with bloodhounds. The Catholics were compelled by law to attend Protestant worship and they were forbidden to vote. In those times the schoolmasters had to gather their classed behind the hedges.
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  2. The Penal Times

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    In Ireland, some years ago, the priests were not allowed to say Mass in any house. If they did the house would be burned or the owners of it would be put to death. The priests had to say Mass in the open in some lonely place.
    In Ardvarney in a field of Hunter's there is a Mass rock at which a priest used to say Mass in the penal times. While the priest would be saying Mass somebody had to keep watch on the
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Murrough Merrick
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Whitehill, Co. Sligo