School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)
- Location:
- Muingwore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 228
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- In the penal days, in the townland of Muingwar a priest named Father Cowley lived in a cave under the ground.
One night the English soldiers were on his tracks. They went into a house in that district and they were talking of his whereabouts and saying they would catch him that night.
The woman of the house stole out through a room window and went to warn Father Cowley.
The priest was in a neighbours' house by his time and the woman told him to hide, that the English soldiers were on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Best
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs M. Best
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun, Co. Sligo
