School: Gusserane
- Location:
- Ráth na gCosarán, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Mrs Corish
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0872, Page 105
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- There is an old stone in a field belonging to Mr. O'Shea Knockea, Campile, there is a cross on this stone. A priest named Father Kehoe said mass there in the penal times. One morning as he was in the middle of Mass he saw the soldiers appearing over the hill to.
He kept on saying mass until the soldiers came up and they dragged him away from his little altar and put away the people.
The priest put up his hands to be shot and the soldiers took up their guns and fired but it was all of no use for every time the bullets were fired they did not go within a yard of the priest and they could not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cissie Donohue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún Meáin, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- John Carbery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dún Meáin, Co. Loch Garman
