School: Scoil N. Comáin, Hollymount
- Location:
- Hollymount Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0105, Page 239
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“I remember when I was a lad a "Patron" to be held in Roundfort.”
(continued from previous page)a High Mass we heard some time before that. While this was going on I pulled the maide Eadhmuin and left the door so that it could be open from the outside. Not long until the Parish priest walked in. From that forth he would not allow school to be conducted in the church.
I attended a Protestant school then - the Protestant school in Hollymount, myself and Tom McDonagh - father of Tom McDonagh the present clerk of the church in Roundfort. Miss Frazer was the teacher. Lindsay (the landlord) used to send out a churn of soup in a donkey cart with goblets to divide on the scholars and the poor of Hollymount. No Catholic would touch the soup. Soup was distributed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Bloomfield big house divided it on Thurs. Friday and Saturday.
Fr King, when he heard of the distribution of soup on the catholic scholars, came one day and compelled all the them to leave the school. Fr. King was the P.P.
Máire Lally of Davross gave an old barn. Our fathers cut scraws and got timber and roofed it and thatched it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donnchadh Ó Riain
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Rahard, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Merrick
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Hollymount Demesne, Co. Mayo