School: Courtbane (roll number 14540)
- Location:
- An Chúirt Bhán, Co. Lú
- Teacher: P. Mac Eochagáin
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“Shelagh Church is over 80 years built.”
(continued from previous page)named them. The Arch-Bishop said that they must have their favourite church still and it was not shut for 18 years later. Father Lennon was P.P. then.
After 18 years after a Mission it was closed, as a new Arch-Bishop who visited the Parish thought it was too near Cross and Shelagh.
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“When Mobane Church was going to be built, the chief of the district, Brian O Neill (supposed to be the brother of the great Aodh O Néill) took the Arch-bishop on a visit to select a site for a church, a suitable distance from Creggan where the parish chur”
When Mobane Church was going to be built, the chief of the district, Brian O Neill (supposed to be the brother of the great Aodh O Néill) took the Arch-bishop on a visit to select a site for a church, a suitable distance from Creggan where the parish church was.
The Arch-Bishop selected a spot behind Mrs Tom Luckie's in Mobane and asked for a table so that he might bless the spot and give Benediction. Brian O'Neill was absent and when he arrived he saw the Arch-Bishop with the Blessed Sacrament. He was offended because the Arch-Bishop selected the site without consulting him and he rushed to the table and was in such a rage that he slapped the Arch-Bishop in the face and taking up the table, carried it to Mobane. All followed him but the Arch-Bishop predicted that the O'Neills would lose their dignity and power and would become extinct.(continues on next page)