School: Clochar na Trocaire, Cinn Mhara
- Location:
- Cinn Mhara, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Siúr M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0049, Page 0356
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- (continued from previous page)priest to stand on. There is a hole like a cave beside a bush which was for the priests bed. The token they had for being in time for mass was to come to the place where the priest lived, and ask him was he going to have mass and then one of them would know their catholic people, and they would tell each other the would all gather together and hear mass. The priest had watchmen to guard the priest people and place for fear the English would come and kill them. The catholic people had to give to him for saying mass. There was a priest killed and be-headed and then he was thrown into a dark hole and the catholic people buried him in one of their own graves.
- Collector
- Mary A. Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Thomas Connors
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
