1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Losad

School: Losad

Location:
Losset, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Úna Bean Uí Laoghaire
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1072, Page 282

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1072, Page 282

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Losad
  2. XML Page 282
  3. XML “Penal Days”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Penal Days

    Share Share Post
    There are many stories of the Penal Days told around the firesides of the country houses. Here in Lossett on the top of the Lossett Hill not far from our school house many traces are still left of the time when the priests had to say mass in secret on the hill sides. There is a rough altar of stone still here and the stones on which the people knelt during mass are still pointed out. This mount is called "Ard an Aifriann" or the Height of the Masses.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Fanny Conaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Losset, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    William Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Losset, Co. Donegal