School: Baile Caisleáin an Róistigh (B.) (roll number 14107)
- Location:
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Luineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 032
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The graveyard removed from Courtbrack to Mathehy (Magh Teiche.) It moved about midnight.
In the penal days a Priest was saying Mass on the hill-side. A local informer brought the soldiers, one of whom cut off the priest's arm, while the priest was in the Act of raising the Sacred Host.
The informer was killed, and was to be buried in Court brack churchyard, but during the night the graveyard moved away – rather than bear the remains of the informer.
A man coming from Cork saw the churchyard going – one portion of it fell int o a river at his feet.
He lived to go home, and tell the tale.
