School: Páirc na Rian (C.), Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 4882)

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1. The Penal Days

   

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   There is a Mass Rocks in Beck's Field in Rockmarshall and it is known as Betty's Rock. There is a Mass Rock in Ravensdale. There is a Mass Rock in Annaloughan and beside it there is a well called "Tobar na h-Altar". Fr. Roger O' Hanlon who was the parish priest of Rathcor used to come and say Mass there are eight o'clock every morning during Penal times. This story was told by John Rice of Annaloughan: My father was talking to an old man who saw this happen. The old man was eight years of age at the time. The old man told my father he saw the Yeomen following the corpse of a man who was executed in Dundalk for being in the

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Diarmada

   Gender

   Female