School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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- (continued from previous page)only that her wide skirts kept her floating she'd have been drowned too.
- The parish of Currin was greatly persecuted in penal days. There was a "Mass Rock" situated in the townland of Knox parish of Currin. It was on the right hand side of the lane leading to a house the property of the late Owen McCaul. This "Rock" was taken away about twenty years ago. The spot where the "Mass Rock" was can still be traced there is a spring well just beside it and it was here that the priests got the water to use at Mass. Father Owen McCaul a native of Knox read mass at this "Rock" in the year 1815. He was chased by a band of spies and he ran into "Cleeskin" fort to hide. He read Mass in this fort also. Shortly after this he went to Carrickmacross and died there.
- Informant
- Owen Smyth
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Corrinary, Co. Monaghan
