School: Turin (roll number 7827)
- Location:
- Tevrin, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bríd Mhistéal
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- (continued from previous page)Rock, where the priest said Mass in the Penal times is still to be seen in Turin ranch. The people came to this rock to hear Mass, at 12 o'clock at night. While the priest said Mass, some men were up in the trees watching, fearing the arrival of the "Red Coats" from Mullingar.
The path to the Mass Rock is still to be seen on the field and is called the "Mass Path."
I do not know if any soldiers were in pursuit of any priest in this district but in the Penal times, they brought priests from the Friary in Multyfarnham. They put some of them in jail and shot some priests also.
Masses were not said in houses in the Penal times, so if the English soldiers found a priest saying Mass in a house, they would burn the house and shoot the people.
- Collector
- Angela Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghan, Co. Westmeath
