School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 350
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- (continued from previous page)only old dirty lanes with stepping stones in them. So the people used to go to mass and market cross country. Mass used to be early on a Christmas morning then about 7 o.c. and the people had to be out at 6 o.c. to be there for the first mass. A crowd from a townland used to go together and often join up with another crowd in the next townland. Well on this Christmas morning, the Toomas (people of the townland of Tooma) were going to mass. In the crowd was Revd. Fr M Kiernan (then a student in All Hallows' College) and my father & several others since dead. When they started off from Tooma, they heard starting from the top of Tooma hill, the most beautiful music that ever the ear of man heard. It seemed to be played on bag pipes and flutes and no body ever before heard such nice reels and jigs as was played. The music passed down into the valley and across to Drumshambo hill. The people of Drumshambo joined up and they all followed the music over to Corroneary and across the valley to Aughavas chapel. Everyone along the route heard the music and it passed away over Aughavas and faded away towards the hills of Corriga. It was the talk of the whole countryside for long after.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Revd Michael M. Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
