School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)not sick at all. And the priest went on the sick call and the soldiers caught him and hanged him. The man that pretended he was sick died soon after, the priest was hung, and creepers were coming up his neck.
- In the penal days there was a priest by the name of Fr. Molloy sheltered in Rathrobin Castle about quarter of a mile the East side of Mt Bolus by Frank Biddulph. he remained there for three weeks. The Yeomen were looking for him and they could not fine him. they got a man to send a sick call to him. They meant to get him by this pretence to hang him. When he got the message Frank Biddulph did not want him to go he thought it looked too much like treackery. The priest said that it was his duty to go. When he went to the place the soldiers caught him. they hanged him the next day outside Brittas Castle about a mile the South West side of Clonaslee in the County Leix.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Cash
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killoughy, Co. Offaly
