School: Cill Uachtair
- Location:
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- The priests and celebrated preachers and scholars often lived in sod-covered houses built up against a turf-bank in the bogs.
The priests said Mass in a field belonging to Tom Harte Ballycoleman. That field is now known as "the Mass Field". It is a big field in a very hollow place. There are some very big hills surrounding it. Mass was also said in a field of Joe Hartes in Kilmactranny. It is said that tracks of blood are to be seen on rocks there yet.
A priest named Father Moore was shot, by an English soldier, while he was reading Mass at Carrickard near Kilmactranny, Co Sligo.
If you look from a distance at the rock you imagine you see the priest and clerk. The priest was buried there. Sir Frederick Hamilton killed monks in Ballindoon Abbey.
