School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Uí Mhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 140
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- There was a little thatched Chapel on the hill of Rathcarn and a priest used to say mass there. Long ago they would give a reward for a priests head. They used to tie a priest between two horses, and when they would come to a turn of the road, they would cut the heads, legs and every piece of them off.
There is a hole in Mr Farrelly's garden, where a priest is supposed to have hid during the Penal times.
They said mass everywhere they went even in sheds stables and barns.
- Collector
- Tess Cassidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr Cassidy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
