School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)

Location:
Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Patrick Timbin
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  1. Cnoc an Aifrinn
    Quite convenient to this school, and about fifty yards to the south-east of it, is a hill, called Cnoc an Aifrinn. In the penal days it was used as a place for saying Mass secretly. There was then a price on the head of every priest who was caught saying Mass in the country.
    At that time the priests used to wear the clothes of an ordinary man, and live in the farmers' houses.
    This was then a lonely place. It was mostly bog land at that time. The roads leading to Kilfian parish, or to Killala, were not then made. So this was a small hill in a backward district. The Cooneal Chapel is now build quite near it, and a little to the east side.
    Margaret Keegan
    Author - Thomas Mulherin, Cooneal
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
    Collector
    Margaret Keegan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Mulherrin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coonealmore, Co. Mayo