School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)until he came to a man's house named Wilkinson of Ballymore where David Thompson now resides. When the priest was near there, the soldiers were gaining on him and he ran into Wilkinson's and it was a Protestant house. The Wilkinson's put him in under a barrel and told the soldiers he had gone on. The priest left his blessing at this house. He said "Who ever lives here will never want for anything" and it is true.
There is a massrock in James Friel's field in Sandhill.
There is an alter erected in Tim Brogan's hill in Knocknafaugher. There is another alter in Kill on John Cullen's land.
The priests used to say mass in all the lonely places in the mountains. There are caves in Roshine and in Killdarragh where they used to seek refuge.
There lived in Murroe during the Penal Days a boy named Mc Ginley and he dremt there was mass(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Lean
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
