School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)he baptised and he said he was. The priest said then that if all the unbaptised people on earth were in the field with him they could not see him.
- About two hundred years ago in Penal days, the priests had to read Mass in mountain Caves.
A mountain named Sliabh an Iarainn in the Parish of Ballinaglera in Co. Leitrim was often used
There are seven caves to be seen in this mountain, where the priest and people congregated to hear Mass when the opportunity occured.
The people used to go to Mass long before the break of day for fear the English soldiers would come along and kill them.
On one occasion the pirest was reading Mass and the people saw the soldiers coming and they told the priest
The priest said, let them come(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mr Terry Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
