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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 423

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    During penal times the Priests were not allowed to say mass in the chapel's so they would have a mass Rock some place that they would not be found or if they were they be killed. It was said that mass was read on a rock named
    "Carriag na Mada" in Killenkere. A priest named "Mac Na Bo" was going up to the rock to read mass when he was caught by Cromwell's soldiers at a place where Stracicnabo school now stands he escaped but was caught again in a meadow now owned by Pat Sexton. The town land of Stravicnabo was called after him. Where Knocknagilla school is now in the penal times it was a small thatched house and mass was said there for many year's until upper Lavey chapel was built. Anyone who wanted to go to mass in the Penal times the nearest mass they could go to was Virginia.
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ned Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moher, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Ann Smith
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Moher, Co. Cavan