School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 234
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- Penal Days
There is in the grave-yard in Donore a little hut where mass was said in the Penal Days.In the 1911 there was found in Sheephouse quarry a crucifix and a candlestick said to be hidden by a priest in the Penal Days. They are now in the National Museum in Dublin.
- Collector
- Nancy Cluskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duleek Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Mathews
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Rathmullan Road, Co. Louth
- Long ago there lived a very cruel king and in order to be able to have big feasts he ordered all the cows in the country to be killed. There was one poor widow who lived alone in the heart of the country and she owned one cow. One morning the soldiers came and took the cow away. That evening she was sitting at the door watching the sun setting. Suddenly she saw the hill in front of her open and a pure white cow came towards her. The woman was puzzled but she put it in a shed(continues on next page)
