School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drummond
- XML Page 256
- XML “In the Penal Times”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In the town of Ballywilliam there is a small stream that runs between Ballywilliam and Currawn. In a field belonging to Mr Lausence Doyle are the remains of a chapel of Penal days and also the mass rock where they used to say mass. It was known as the glens. It was said that there was a churchyard there also and some of the old tombstones were brought to Mr Somers of Ballywilliam to make a floor in the kitchen. When the priest was saying mass in this lonely place there were four sentries posted, one in Templeudigan one in the outside district of Ballywilliam and another in Currawn and Ballyleigh. Therefore Elizabeth's soldiers or spies were never able to capture the priest saying mass. It is a lonely place now and it is marked on the map of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynabearna, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynabearna, Co. Wexford