School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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- …… then burned where the ruins are still to be seen. There is also a Mass Rock in Bookeen and the district around there is called Carrigonaifrinn.
A man named Rogers who lived in Clostoken was a priest hunter and spent his time robbing and plundering churches. Other priest hunters were the Lepoeur of Coorkeen and lived where Most Rev. Dr. Dignan now resides.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Clare Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway
- (continued from previous page)In the penal days the priests used to read Mass out in the mountains. The priests of this parish used to read Mass in a place called ‘Cros-buithín’.
There was a priest reading Mass and when the English men followed him he jumped from one hill to another across the lake of ‘loch bhéal Sraith’. It is called Léim an t-Sagairt’