School: Tobar (B.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ó Maoltuile
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- James Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyboughlin, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyboughlin, Co. Offaly
- Long ago, Mass was not said in chapels. Mass was said in fields and houses. A priest was saying Mass one day under a bush in a field. There were two serves serving Mass. Four men came up and saw the priest saying Mass and two servers serving Mass. They stopped the priest from saying Mass. Then the people killed the priest and hanged the two servers out of a bush. The man that owned the land had cattle on it. The cattle started to die. He did not know what to do. He got a cross(continues on next page)
