School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Uí Mhacháin
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- In Mac Connell's field there are two glens their hills are covered with firs. It is called glan na sagart because priests used to say mass long ago.
In Prendergast's field there is a long path across the field leeding to a hollow that path was called the mass path.
These places are still pointed out where mass was said long ago.
In Knockshangen a priest hid himself in a sand pit.
In Katty Kelly's house in Knockshangen a priest used to say mass in one of the rooms.
- Collector
- Nancy Maye
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Martinstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr Maye
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Martinstown, Co. Meath
