Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. Kilmachree Chapel (continued)

   

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   that with the approval of His Lordship the Bishop, Mass was not again to be celebrated in Kilmachree Chapel. When the truth was known to them there was utter amazement among the congregation as up to now they thought that all the other doings were only rumours to prevent people from other parishes from crowding Kilmachree on Sundays. A meeting of the people of the Parish was speedily held and the result was that a deputation of the Kilmachree congregation went to the Most Rev. Dr. Furlong at Enniscorthy. He calmed their excitement and gave them much good and sound advice and impressed on them the obedience due to the Parish Priest. Another deputation followed but the result was the same, but many murmured and went into Wexford to Mass a distance of about five miles and not to Piercestown. When the Rev. P. Keating died in 1858 the people again appealed to the bishop, but always with the same result.

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   History Edit

   Date

   31 July 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Location

   Kilmacree, Co. Wexford

   Collector

   • Domhnall de Buitléir

   Informant

   • Tomás Ó Ciaráin