School: Cill Muire, Sixmilebridge
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chonmara
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 231
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In the greenwood Ballymulcashel a stone alter still stands where priests said Mass in Penal times
The place was then owned by Andrew Stackpool, a catholic. The authorities heard that he used to shealter priests and his land was going to be confiscated unless he became a protestant. He was old then and decided to give up his religion, and he was leaving the place by night by carriage and pair but at a certain part of the road the horses shied and no amount of beating or coaxing would prevail on them to go further. So he returned to the house and a short time later died a catholic.
There was a drawbridge here which was lowered day and taken up by night as protection.
