School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cinn Mhara
- Location:
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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- (continued from previous page)were approaching. The people who attended mass used to run to hiding places for safety.
Many priests were beheaded and when this was done their heads were thrown into a large hole which is now called "Poll na gleann" or "hole of the heads". Many priests succeeded in escaping from the English but, those who escaped were watched closely and beheaded afterwards. Several priests were betrayed by certain people for the sake of receiving money from the English. Never will the cruelty of the Penal Laws be in oblivion by the Irish.- Collector
- Mary Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Oibrí
- Address
- Kinvarra, Co. Galway