School: Coolroebeg, Thomastown (roll number 12487)
- Location:
- Coolroebeg, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eochagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)save perhaps under the ten general persecutions under the Roman Emperors. The Churches and Monasteries were confiscated and the priests and Monks exiled or martyred; the sord and the rack and the gibbet reeked in the blood of Ireland's martyrs. Driven from their homes the mountain fastnesses, the bog and the forest protected the priest and his faithful flock from the axe and the halter.
On the feast of St. Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin, in the year 1543, the ruthless hand of this rapacious king seized upon all the vast possessions of Knocktopher Abbey, and sold the greater portion with the Abbey to one Thomas Barnwell for ever, at a charge of 4/-. Irish per annum. A small portion was alotted to Thomas White, together with the Castle, which place is still called White's Castle. Thus the White Abbey of Knocktopher and all its glories, passed away, and so were the poor robbed of consolation, youth of education, and the people in general of the many blessings that ever flow from the sanctuary. The poor Carmelite Friars, having been driven from their homes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- L. Geoghegan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Informant
- Fr Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
