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School: Baile an Chaisil C., Clochar na Trócaire

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Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
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An tSr. Aingeal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 371

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    Long ago the priests were not allowed to celebrate Holy Mass in the Churches like nowadays. They had to go to the mountains, to the low valleys and to the woods to offer the Holy Sacrifice. Usually at night they celebrated Holy Mass as they were afraid of the English Government to do so in day time.
    Once there was an Archbishop sent from Galway to Mayo and at that time there lived an English chief in Ballycastle. Now this chief hated the Bishop so much that after a short time he had him tortured and hanged. A few days before the Bishop died he told the people that the chief would soon answer to God for his bad deeds. Shortly after the Bishop's death this English chief contracted some strange disease an no doctor could cure him. The day before he died he cried out to the people of
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Timlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Jackson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinglen, Co. Mayo