School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- Many stories are told about the Mass and the terrible suffering of the people in the time of the Penal Laws. About fifty years ago a man in my district stopped going to Mass because his cow and calf died. He was about ten years without getting to Mass and every time a new priest came to the district he went to see him but it was no good, he would not go. This time a young priest came to see him and he pinned a badge of the Sacred Heart on his coat.
He started to argue with the priest and when the priest was going to give him a push and in doing so fell and got hurt. The priest went back to him and heard his confession(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboghil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Paddy Gunn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Carrownaskeagh, Co. Roscommon