School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0211
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About a century ago Dennis Kelly became the heir to the lands which his forefathers had confiscated. Of course he evicted many of his tenants. On one occasion he evicted a poor widow and he was cursed by the priest (Father Wallace).
He said he would never have an heir to his property and it happened. On another occasion he met his favourite Marcas Acrach and he asked him (him) to compose a piece of poetry for him and the man said:-
The chapel is built and the church may fall
And kill Dennis Kelly and jumpers and all.
and that also proved true
Dennis was a jumper so then he had knowledge of Catholicity. On one occasion he had freemasons in the house. They were excercising their great power. Dennis had a servant boy who was a catholic. He told him to leave a bottle of holy water in the(continues on next page)
