School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 117
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- In the Penal times priests were not allowed to say Mass. In some churches there were rooms in the ceilings to hide the priests from the priest hunters. There lived in Carlow a priest hunter whose name was Hunters Gown. When he caught a priest he split his head with an axe or put him a barrel of buring petrol and rolled him down a hill.
- Long ago there lived in Knockmannon in the parish of Lisdowney Co. Kilkenny a man named Edward Dunphy. One day he ploughed a rath down to the ground but the next day it was the same as ever. Again when he was cutting bushes on it a great many white mice ran out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs John Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyconra, Co. Kilkenny
