School: Tobberclair
- Location:
- Tobar Chláir, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Briain
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- Mass used to be said in the church in Kilkenny West in the penal times. There was a monastery in Kilkenny also and about two-hundred Monks in it. When Cromwell came to Ireland his soldiers were coming to plunder the monastery. The Monks put all the sacred vessels and other valuable things into a chest and put it on a float and it was supposed to be put into Auburn Lake. Nobody around the districts of Creevenamanagh or Kilkenny West ever betrayed a priest as far as can be remembered. There was an abbey in Ardnacraney. Father Dillon was one of the priests there. There was a gold cross in the abbey that weighed eight hundredweights. In the time of Cromwell Father Dillon buried it so that the soldiers would not find it. Father Dillon was afterwards beheaded by Cromwells' soldiers.There was a nunnery in Bethlem at the time. When the soldiers rushed into the convent some of the nuns tried to escape but they did not suceed. The soldiers brought them to some neighbors yard where they were beheaded. There is a rock in Michael McCanns field. Mass was said there long ago. People go there still to get(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Chainnigh, Co. na hIarmhí
