School: Portarlington (Presentation Convent)
- Teacher: Sr Imelda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 083
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- (continued from previous page)was Fr. John Donnelly who was ordained in 1675 at Dundalk by the saintly Martyr, Blessed Oliver Plunkett, another priest of the parish was Father John Whelan who died in 1775 aged 91 years. It is said that Fr.Whelan in his young days knew a very old man named Cullen who had often spoken to two men actually living in Mullagh-mast at the time of the dreadful massacre in 1577, when several members of the seven septs of Leix were treacherously done to death.
- Informant
- J. Mac Guire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bracklone, Co. Laois
