School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 062
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“A few miles from Ballyshannon in a townland called Cashelard, there is a bare spot of ground surrounded by grass. There has been no vegetation on the spot referred to for centuries...”
A few miles from Ballyshannon in a townland called Cashelard, there is a bare spot of ground surrounded by grass. There has been no vegetation on the spot referred to for centuries. It marks the place where a priest was murdered in the Penal days. It was a company named the Patersons that killed him. All of them hid behind a ditch except one. He went to the priest’s door and told him he was wanted on a sick call. The priest got ready aand went with the man. When the priest and the man were out of the town a crowd of men rushed out from (bef) behind a ditch and led the priest away and killed him.
- Collector
- Seamus Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr James Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal