School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber

Location:
Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Máire Galvin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 169

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  1. Priests used to hide themselves from the priest-hunters in the penal times. One of these hiding places was between Curraghlassa and Kilcolgan.
    This place is called the caislean. It was built underground and it is still to be seen.
    Every day a priest used to say Mass in this cave and many people attended it.
    There were no house built in those days for priests to say Mass in, but they said Mass on the side of a hill or in this cave.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seosaimhín Ní Bhuachalla
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Curraghalassa, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Patrick Buckley
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Curraghalassa, Co. Offaly