School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Caisleán an Chomair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 101
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Castlecomer (B.)
- XML Page 101
- XML (no title)
- XML “Hidden Treasures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“In the Penal days...”
In the Penal days a Priest was saying mass in a cottage near Crettyard. When the mass was nearly finished the men on watch ran in and told them the soldiers were coming, the people ran to their houses. But the priest was caught in a tunnel which he was trying to escape through. The soldiers killed him and his body rotted. Years afterwards he was found, but his right hand didn't rot for it was holding a chalice.
- One day a farmer was working in his field near a Rath in Conahy. When(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Caisleán an Chomair, Co. Chill Chainnigh
