School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 80
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- Long ago in the Penal days Gartan was a very Protestant place and the priests had to say Mass out in the open air.
A kind hearted Protestant man gave the Catholics a piece of land to build a church and the priest read Mass there every Sunday. Some time after the Church was erected the Protestant man died. This Protestant kept a Catholic servant Girl who always attended Mass and when she would come back from Mass the people of the house were in the habit of asking her what was the sermon on and she would always tell them.
A few Sundays after the old man was buried the priest told the congregation(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mulrine
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Brigid Herron
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 20
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Baile na Finne, Co. Donegal
