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School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)

Location:
Riverstown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 037

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    hills to see if the English soldiers were coming.
    If they were the watchers would give the alarm and the priest and people would have to gather all up and flee. Mass was often stopped several times in this way.
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  2. The Penal Times

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    Down to the present day every Catholic child of Ireland heard about the penal times. The English came over to Ireland and would not allow the Catholics to practise their religion. They forbade the priests to say Mass under pain of death.
    The priests had to say Mass in an old deserted house or in the shelter of trees or ditches. To this day the people of Ireland point with pride to the
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teasie Gurrie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Riverstown, Co. Sligo