School: Inch, Borris
- Location:
- Clanagh, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Michael J. O'Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 593
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - In the Penal times when priests' were not allowed to say mass in public they had to say it in lonely places where they would not be in danger of the English soldiers.The priest used to go to a certain house in each district to say mass and to hear confessions. They used to go to a house in Ballyglisheen owned by Dan Cummins. There was a chapel in it also in a field now owned by Patrick Flood. The old people say that part of inch school was built with the stones of this chapel.In Rathgearin there was a mass rock where mass used bed said. There was a chapel in Kavanagh's field of Newtown. The walls are still there.(continues on next page)
