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1. The Penal Times

   

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   …… then burned where the ruins are still to be seen. There is also a Mass Rock in Bookeen and the district around there is called Carrigonaifrinn. A man named Rogers who lived in Clostoken was a priest hunter and spent his time robbing and plundering churches. Other priest hunters were the Lepoeur of Coorkeen and lived where Most Rev. Dr. Dignan now resides.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Clare Ward

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway

   Informant

   John Ward

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Address

   Ballynacurragh, Co. Galway

2. The Penal Times (continued)

   

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   In the penal days the priests used to read Mass out in the mountains. The priests of this parish used to read Mass in a place called ‘Cros-buithín’.
   There was a priest reading Mass and when the English men followed him he jumped from one hill to another across the lake of ‘loch bhéal Sraith’. It is called Léim an t-Sagairt’

   

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