School: Naomh Muire (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0681, Page 010
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- During the penal days priests went about reading Mass in secret and hiding about the country.
One day a priest came to a farmers house where a lot of neighbours were assembled. He went upstairs and began to say mass in a room at the roof of the house.
When Mass was going on, the priest hunters were near. The priest escaped, aftering hiding the Blessed Sacrement in behind a loose brick in the wall.
For fifty years after every night a bright light shone down on a bed in the room.
Anyone who saw it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Bagnall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pearse Park, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
