School: Coiscéim (B.) (roll number 3886)

Location:
Kishkeam Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Ceallacháin
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  1. In Penal days Priests had a very hard life. They were hunted from place to place. They had no fixed abode to live or to say mass only spending a night in one house and the next night in a different house afraid of being caught by the Priest hunters.
    The people of the house in which a Priest had to say mass in the side of a cliff or in any kind of a house where the people of the neighbourhood stole to hear mass. I do not know of any particular place in this locality where mass was said in the old days.
    Mass is said in the houses at the present day with much preparation made for it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jerry Cronin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glenreagh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Maggie Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Glenreagh, Co. Cork