School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 406
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St Canice's, Aghaboe
- XML Page 406
- XML “In the Penal Times”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)at present.
There was a Mass Pit in Mr Phelans's field of Coole. A priest named Father Dinny said Mass in it. A man came in and killed the priest while saying Mass there. He cut off his head and took it to the Red Coats who were camped in a place called Camphill which is about a mile from Castletown. When he came out the camp he fell dead. One of the most famous Mass-Pits was the one in Mr Bannon's field in Boston. There was a big hole in the ground with bushes all around it. A man named Worl cut down some of the bushes around the hole to fence a gap, and when he went out the next day he found one of the best bullocks in the farm dead. There is a Mass Pit in Mr Furney's field in the side of a hill. At the bottomof the hole there is a holy well. Around the well there is a ring of bushes, Mr(continues on next page)
