School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lios Dúnaígh, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 117
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- In the Penal times priests were not allowed to say Mass. In some churches there were rooms in the ceilings to hide the priests from the priest hunters. There lived in Carlow a priest hunter whose name was Hunters Gown. When he caught a priest he split his head with an axe or put him a barrel of buring petrol and rolled him down a hill.
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- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Dúnaígh, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mrs John Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal Átha Conrátha, Co. Chill Chainnigh
