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School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar

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Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
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Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 514

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    Penal Times
    In Kilmactranny on a hill called Lug Mor [?], which is owned by Michael Mac Gettrick a priest was shot. He was saying Mass on the Mass Rock one morning and the enemy came upon him. There was no chance of escape and as a result the priest was shot. The image of his knee is still in the rock together with drops of his last blood.
    Found by Maureen Leyland, Woodfield, Knockvicar, Boyle.
    There was a mound of clay about three feet high in Charlie Bruen's field in Moher. It is a few yards from a spring well and it
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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