School: Ceathramhadh Ceanainn (C.) (roll number 10842)
- Location:
- An Cheathrú Cheanainn, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Róisín, Bean Mhic Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1073, Page 411
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“There are three places in this Parish that remind us of the penal days. They are the Mass rock over at Ballyboes and another over at Cashel-na-gor and the chimney on the Gortahork chapel.”
There are three places in this parish that remind us of the penal days.
They are the mass rock over at Ballyboes and another over at Cashel na-gor and the chimney on the Gortahork chapel. the people in Gortahork had to light a fire in the chapel every day and when the soldiers passed by they saw the smoke coming out of the chimney and they thought it was an ordinary house. I would not like to be living those days because the Catholic children would not be allowed to go to a Catholic school and the Catholic teachers had to teach out in some field under a hedge and some of the children would have to watch and tell the teachers if the soldiers were coming.
Most of the Catholics were poor during theses days because the could not become a judge(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chumhaill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droim na Tine, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Nóra Ní Chumhaill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Droim na Tine, Co. Dhún na nGall