Scoil: Kilteevan (uimhir rolla 14966)

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1. A Mass Rock

   

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   A Mass Rock
   In the vicinity of Kilteevan House, in a place called the 'crows wood', on a slightly raised mound of earth, is a large, flat stone, called the "Mass Rock. All around this hillock, blackthorn bushes grew in dense profusion; now these are all swept away and only the hillock and stone remain.
   In the penal times mass was said here frequently as the place was very secluded, being in the centre of a thick wood and the rock itself being hemmed in by a strong growth of blackthorn bushes.
   The Mapother family, who owned the Kilteevan House and Property, came over with Cromwell, and were Protestants It is said that in the later, penal times the wife of the then Mapother was a Catholic and that she used to get up at night and go to assist at mass which was being celebrated at the Rock Her husband became suspicious and resolved to follow her and find out where she went. On the next occassion that she left the house, he followed

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