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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0872, Page 144

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    if the English soldiers came on they would capture the priest or put him to death.
    A story is told about a priest named Fr Meyler Harristown who was saying mass on the hills on Christmas night. He was captured and shot. The remains of some of the mass stones used in the penal day can be seen to day. There was one in Killesk. A priest named Fr Downes (?) was a parish priest in Nash for 40 years. Poor scholars were learned men who went around from house to house teaching the children. They taught Latin to young boys.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Foley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathumney, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Foley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathumney, Co. Wexford