School: Gurrane (B.) (roll number 14839)
- Location:
- Clondrohid, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Loingsigh
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“In the Penal Times when English laws regarded it a shocking crime to be present at Mass the Irish people were forced to gather together in lonely places to worship God.”
(continued from previous page)an t-Seipéil is just outside the boundary fence of Townsends "demesne". During the lifetime of the old planter and his descendants who lived at Cahirkeegane it would be seeking danger rather than avoiding it to celebrate mass at Innse an t-Seipéil.A Story
“Shean Mor Ó Luasa was a great man.”
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- Dan Driscoll
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- The old school was in the eastern end of the Chapel yard. It was a two storey one. The boys were on the ground floor and the girls upstairs. There was three teachers in the boys school and four in the girls school. In the boys Mr. Whelton was the principal and he got them to write a song about a meeting that was held at the Chapel gate the Sunday before.And one of the songs was,
Last Sunday after last Mass,
A crowd collected below at the cross
to hold an assemble as to the rights of the nation(continues on next page)