School: Myshall (B.)
- Location:
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 231
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- There were a couple of happenings in the locality during the penal times. There is hardly any place in Ireland that had not something to do with the penal times. There is a place in the townsland of Knockbrack where a priest was celebrating mass when they saw a party of soldiers coming. He was accompanied by two men. They then advised him to go and hide in cover of bushes nearby and he did as he was asked. Then the men said they would go down the hill, and they said, if they asked them where they were coming from, they would say they were out for a walk. They had not gone far when they met the soldiers. Before they got to say any thing the soldiers opened fire on them, and killed them. That field is known since as the "Kill Field". The soldiers proceeded on, and passed by the cover, where the priest was.
- Collector
- James Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinacrea, Co. Carlow
