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School: Killybrone (roll number 1798)

Location:
Killybrone, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Coyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 322

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    (continued from previous page)
    There is no other monument on these bleak hills save a Cairn where a girl died a hundred years ago. She accompanied her father to Clogher to sell wool, but succumbed and was left dying while her father fetched aid in vain.
    The following lines are inscribed on the Cross
    To the memory of the priest who was shot here while celebrating Holy Mass on Christmas Day, about the year 1754. Tradition assigns the name of Father McKenna to the martyr of the penal days. Erected September 1938"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English