School: Macha na gClaidhe (roll number 16086)
- Location:
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Macháin
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- When the penal laws were enforce a priest named Ff. Kearney lived on sometimes hid in a Badgers Den at the Foot of a high mountain (Shely mon ambs eart of this school)
This is a field quite near to the Badgers Sen called "paine si seipel" until to be seen.
for him and he hid in "Flynn's House"(still to be seen)
It seems he had an escape hole in thatched roof of Flynn's house. The soldiers approached the house and he made his escape through the hole.
Mass was said here the penal laws-near "Flynn's house" the spot until shown and a stone there is called "cloe na hialtore" He was a well chosen spot hid away among the hills.
- Informant
- Micheal O Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Cousane, Co. Cork
