School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 236
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- During the Penal days Mass used to be said at Deanhill Bush which is about three miles from Slane and near Beauparc and also on the Barristown Mountain about three miles from Slane on the Navan road. All of those were secret places for the saying of Mass.
The Chapel of Slane was where the Game Keeper's house is at present and was called the Thatched Chapel.
There are no Mass paths around here as the Protestants were more numerous than the Catholics at that time.
One of the priests who administered at this Thatched Chapel was the Rev Father Edmond MacKenna whose headstone is in the Hill of Slane(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Coyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hill of Slane, Co. Meath
