School: Clochar na Trócaire (Scoil Naomh Seosaimh) (roll number 13770)

Location:
Mohill, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Sheabhlaigh
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    Mass every morning.
    In this district there were no churches and priests had to say Mass in forts and in lone places and there still remains Celtic crosses and lone bushes to mark spots where sacrifice celbrated and the people of the present would not interfere with those marks no matter what obstruction they cause. In the event of a priest caught saying Mass he was treated with awful cruelty. First they crowned him with what was called the pitch-cap. It was made of a piece of canvas shaped like a cap and then it was filled with boiling pitch and put on the priest's head and when it was set those cruel soldiers pulled it off and brought skin and hair of the head of the poor priest.
    There was a priest caught saying Mass in a field in the townland of Drumhany and he was hanged drawn and
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tríona Ní Mhórain
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Lorcann Ó Mhórain
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    22
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Cavan, Co. Leitrim