School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)Before this building was erected mass in a house, now an out office, belonging to Arthur Brennan Rathinista – one mile away. Previous to that while Penal laws were in force mass was celebrated at a mass Rock on the side of Dysart hill near where Loughehoe House now stands, on steep side surrounded by trees. A mass path still known as such passed up from Grange by the lawn.
A thatched chapel was built here later some say.
Mass Rock – two large flat stones , one lying flat, the other slightly sloping.
An uncle of Michael Dunne of Grange found a Mass Book on this mass-path when he was young. This missal was given to Fr Lalor PP of Maryborough then.
Miss Lizzie Conran (born 1865 or so) says that a grand-uncle of hers was the first to be buried in Ratheniska graveyard. Dick Conran of Loughleague buried under one of the large rear tomb stones
