School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 470
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- (continued from previous page)coming. After a while the soldiers found out that the priest used to be saying Mass there and so the people had to come further down the stream. They built a little thatched house there in which the priest used to say Mass. This little house was covered all around by trees so the soldiers could not see it. There is a fine Church now where this little house was, called Clodiagh Church.
A priest used to hide at Bolgers of Ballinabarn Inistioge Co. Kilkenny when the soldiers used to be after him. The vestments and chalice are still to be seen there.Written by James Walsh, Ballinagoth, Inistoige, Co. Kilkenny.In the penal times Mass was celebrated down in Tintine at a place they called the Celler, half ways between New Ross and Graignamanagh. The priest lived there between two cliffs of a rock. The people had paths going through lonely places to escape the soldiers while going to hear Mass in the hiding place.
There was also a little Church in Kiltown at the back of a farmer's house and the priest had a little room for himself then.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Lyng
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clodiagh, Co. Kilkenny
