School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)
- Location:
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0037
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The Penal Days
Long ago the English made laws in Ireland that no priest should be allowed to say mass and that anybody who would bring the head of a priest would get £5. On that account every priest had to hide and say mass in hidden places throughout the country for fear the English would see him. There is a field in Garbally where a priest used to say mass at that time. That field is still called "Mass Park" since mass was said there. The name of the priest is not known but he used hide in an old house which was in Garbally at that time. He used say mass on a rock(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
