School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)father met him and the priest told him whether he would say Mass the following morning or not. If he would my great-great grandfather would tell all the people he could the night before. On this particular morning when saying the Mass with all the people around him, suddenly a shot was fired and the priest was buried on the spot, after the soldiers beheaded him. It is supposed that a man who was hearing Mass was the one who told the soldiers on what morning to be there. That man and the soldier who shot the priest were lost on the hills a few weeks after. It was said they were never found till this day.
Dympna McKenna
Knockballroney
Scotstown
Co Monaghan
24th Feb 1938.Told By
Owen McKenna, 63 years
Knockballroney
Scotstown- Collector
- Dympna Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockballyroney, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Owen Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Knockballyroney, Co. Monaghan