School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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- (continued from previous page)used to tell the musician to play and then the boys would dance. When the "Failpers" got the can filled with porter they went away.
- In olden times when the Penal Laws were very severe in Ireland a man paraded the country day and night, looking for Catholics and priests to kill. This man’s name was Denis Browne. He was one of the Brownes of Castlemacgarret, and of English descent.
Denis and his followers used to catch priests and poor Catholics and take them to the square in Cloaremorris and hang them on a shaft of (the) a cart which he had there for the purpose. He used to cut the heads off the priests and sell them to the English Government for a £1 a head. - Collector
- John O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Canny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
- It is said that there was a big cave in Cunard near Inishtown which was commonly used as a place of refuge for Catholics during the penal laws. When Denis died all the Catholics were glad. He was buried in Ballintubber. Over his grave there grew a tree.(continues on next page)
- The was a man living in Ballintubber, near Claremorris(continues on next page)
