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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 506

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    any rate Lyons of Croom House closed and locked the church door and would allow no mass to be said there unless 'young Fr. Hartnett' was appointed. The Bishop came out to Croom on Sunday morning and found the doors of the church nailed up fast against him. Mrs Lyons of Croom House had a talk with him and the upshot of it was that 'young Fr. Hartnett' was made P.P.of Croom. He was P.P. of Croom till the day of his death in 1861. (Ed. O'Connell Carrigan Croom)
    Faoi Deiscréid:- When the late Mrs. Lyons, wife of the present owner of Croom House, Capt. J. D. Lyons, was being buried, the present Bishop of Limerick, Dr. Keane presided at her obsequies. The reason assigned by the people hereabouts, for the Bishop's presence at the funeral, was that at some former time when the parish priest of Croom wanted a site where he might build a parochial house the then bishop asked Lyons of Croom House for a suitable field in his farm for that purpose. Lyons refused curtly and definitely and the Bishop-on dit-in acknowledging Lyons' refusal remarked 'that the Parish Priest of Croom had mansions when the Lyonses lived in bohawns on the banks of the Maigue." Apparently this cut hurt deeply and the present Bish-
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Dick Butler
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Edward O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Carraigín, Co. Luimnigh
    Informant
    Joe Costelloe
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Miss Finnerty
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    National múinteoir
    Address
    Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh
    Informant
    Miss Guare
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hederman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Pat Allen
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    William O Connell
    Gender
    Male