Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
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- (continued from previous page)were a 'superior Class', and this imposed Class Destinction became the root of much bitterness in the minds and hearts of Catholic families whose forefathers were driven by Cromwell to dwell in the bogs of Connaught.
During the years of famine and its after effects those families kept their faith, and were now called on to witness, as their forefathers did in Cromwell's time - viz -
Reward and Respect for the man or woman who professed himself or herself a Protestant. - Sandford - Landlord (Protestant) refused the Catholic Dean for a site on which to build a new Catholic Church Parochial House, and Convent for a(continues on next page)