School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)
- Location:
- An Dubhais, Co. Dhún na nGall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)the family had become friendly when the Coxs had broken their connection with the trade of priest-hunting. Cox's daughter "took a conceit in" (liking for) young Ramsey - he gave up his notion of becoming a priest and the two were married.
A son was born to them on "Grove Hill", and while he was still a child "his mother said that she had taken one from the Church and she would give another to It". The boy in question grew up and became a priest, and so the grandson of the last of the priest-hunters was himself a priest, and "Grove Hill" was always pointed out by the old people as his birthplace.
